First off, I would like to thank the author for providing me this ARC to review. Please note that the version I read was an advanced copy, and certain events/language may be changed in the published edition.

Stars (Out of 10): 5/10 Stars

Spoiler Free: The author actually reached out herself to me in regards to reading this book, and I was quite excited at the prospect of reading another book about the four horsemen after recently reading Laura Thalassa’s interpretation of them. Needless to say, this book differs greatly from that one!

For starters, not only does this book use biblical characters as the powerful entities in this book, but she uses greek ones as well, such as Hades. While at some points it got kinda overbearing, and it was never actually explained how everything works together, that didn’t end up being too much of a problem, and I think I would prefer this no explanation over a poor one that confused things even more.

The plot itself was fairly interesting, the narrator had her soul sold before she was even born by her parents, and has spent most of her life waiting for that debt to be collected. It involves a bunch of other supernatural and spiritual figures, such as the devil, demons, Hades, seraphs, warlocks, and vampires, and is ultra packed in terms of content. Not that much happened in this book besides the beginning of the end of the world though, and I still don’t have much of a clue about the grander scope of the plot as a whole, and where it’s actually going to.

In terms of characters, I was a bit less happy. In the end I don’t know if I actually connected/liked any of them as people, or would choose to befriend any of them, but I did like how most of them stuck to the “truth” of themselves. For example, our narrator can really come off like a bitch sometimes, but I get it, her life has never been her own so she’s kinda constantly pissed at the world. But this core of anger and frustration is what drives her, from the confusing and sometimes inconsistent relationship with her parents to how mean she can get with some people, especially her friends. While I wouldn’t wanna be on the other end of her tongue, I do like her fire.

I think the thing that most got to me was the writing style. There were in general quite a few small mistakes here and there, some typos, but I also get that this is an indie and there isn’t a whole team behind this work, which actually makes the existence of only a few of these mistakes quite impressive. The main issue though was the short sentences that the author favored. There were a lot of moments where one thought or phrase was split up into many short sentences for emphasis, or repeated many times in short sentences for emphasis, and it kinda made nothing actually emphasized. It ended up just making some of the portions pretty choppy, and took me out of parts of the work. Additionally, there were moments where the narrator would latch on to a small detail and go on a small rant about something completely unrelated to the current moment at hand, which also brought me out at points.

Overall, I am still extremely intrigued to see what happens next! This book ends on quite the cliffhanger!