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A review by minnfinnfiction
Famine by Laura Thalassa
3.0
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC - these opinions are my own!
This is Book Three of the Four Horseman Series:
Similarities:
- Plot: main characters ride from town-2-town while the Horsemen eradicate humanity one settlement at a time.
- Enemies-to-lovers dynamic where the FMC is a fighter who tries to kill the MMC.
- The Horseman thinks he sees some kind of “divine sign” from God yet spares the FMC.
- Slow burn where the (anti-) hero falls first while the heroine takes convincing before she falls, too.
Differences:
- Each horseman has been sent to earth for a different divine purpose, in this case Famine is destroying the life and plants he encounters - he can also control the weather and call the bugs (locusts?)
Famine might be the cruelest of the four horsemen. While the rest gave hints that they didn't actually like nor want to destroy humans and earth (it was just their destiny) - Famine seemed to enjoy it.
FMC, Ana, was a prostitute and gave a lot of sexual innuendos - sometimes relevant and humorous and other times it felt forced.
This is certainly a unique series with a dark villian love trope - the series was definitely different and kept the pages turning - If I were to give my most honest wish about this series - I'd wish these four books were ONE book - edit them down a bit and then we could read all at the same time.
While I ended up reading Death as my first of the four books, I'd rank them in the following order:
Death, Pestilence, War, Famine.
This is Book Three of the Four Horseman Series:
Similarities:
- Plot: main characters ride from town-2-town while the Horsemen eradicate humanity one settlement at a time.
- Enemies-to-lovers dynamic where the FMC is a fighter who tries to kill the MMC.
- The Horseman thinks he sees some kind of “divine sign” from God yet spares the FMC.
- Slow burn where the (anti-) hero falls first while the heroine takes convincing before she falls, too.
Differences:
- Each horseman has been sent to earth for a different divine purpose, in this case Famine is destroying the life and plants he encounters - he can also control the weather and call the bugs (locusts?)
Famine might be the cruelest of the four horsemen. While the rest gave hints that they didn't actually like nor want to destroy humans and earth (it was just their destiny) - Famine seemed to enjoy it.
FMC, Ana, was a prostitute and gave a lot of sexual innuendos - sometimes relevant and humorous and other times it felt forced.
This is certainly a unique series with a dark villian love trope - the series was definitely different and kept the pages turning - If I were to give my most honest wish about this series - I'd wish these four books were ONE book - edit them down a bit and then we could read all at the same time.
While I ended up reading Death as my first of the four books, I'd rank them in the following order:
Death, Pestilence, War, Famine.