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War
by Laura Thalassa
“I have let you enjoy your own space because it pleased you, and I enjoy pleasing you and your ridiculous human whims.”
My ridicu—? “You want to please me?” I say, now officially peeved. “How about you stop killing people?”
War gives me a piercing look. “There’s another I seek to please too, Miriam. And unfortunately for you, He wishes differently.”
After being disappointed by book 1, I didn’t have high hopes going into this one, but I enjoyed it so much more than I expected! I liked War and Miriam, both separately and together (which I can’t really say about the first book MCs). Miriam was just as ruthless at times as War, pretty sure she killed someone within the first few pages.
I rub my forehead and then my mouth. Death is getting easier for me to dole out. That’s…worrisome.
I loved their initial meeting, the “You are my wife” gets me every time. Also, he almost always calls her “wife,” and I didn’t think I’d like it…but I did?
War, like Pestilence, was focused on his task, but he was also bloodthirsty and enjoyed the hunt, which was a little gross, but I guess they are mythical beings in human-ish bodies, so what did you really expect?
“You cannot understand His will, but you will understand my vengeance.”
Miriam (and War to a lesser extent) were funny, and I love dark books that have funny in them, so I appreciated that.
Pretty sure [his horse] senses my inadequacy as a human being.
Dead 😂
Anyway, this book is full of violence, of Miriam trying to kill War, and War trying to kill everyone else that exists.
“Fight all you want, wife. Battle is what I’m best at – and I assure you, you won’t win this one.”
I have a ton of quotes highlighted but as you can probably tell from reading this review, I took too long to write it and I’ve forgotten everything, so I’ll just cut to the end, which I’ll put under a spoiler review but, it shook me.
SHE DID.
War regenerates, or whatever it is they do, and comes to with half of Miriam on him and the other half blown away from the bombs – like, good lord. I was about to cry. Death brings her back, cuz I guess these are romance-ish books and you can’t have a dead FMC, but yeah, that was a first.
The ground is moving. Not just opening but moving. It looks alive, and I can’t make sense of what I’m seeing—until, that is, a desiccated hand erupts from the ground.
“Dear God,” I breathe.
From the earth, the dead rise.
Also, zombies. War can raise the damn dead. So get ready for that.
The dead are killing the last of the living. This is why I heard nothing but rumors about those cities gone to the grave. War left no survivors, and without survivors there was no way to warn the rest of the world that the horseman was coming.
Is that a spoiler? I dunno, hopefully, you haven't read this far if you haven't read the book yet🙃
I really need to write reviews right after I read the book. It needs to happen. Thank you so much to Bloom Books and the author for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest (and terribly written) review!
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Well, this was so much better than the first book 😅
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