Miriam is a strong-willed young girl from Jerusalem who has lost her family and is all on her own. I was pleasantly surprised when I realized I had no idea where she was going to take these two characters and the many supporting characters in the story. I admit I was trying to figure out how Thalassa could concoct four totally different stories that held up by themselves and weren’t full of recycled content from the previous book(s). So you would think this book would be no different from Pestilence but… this book had its own feel and its own plot and resolution.

I tell ya what I did connect with… that cover art. I ultimately decided that I definitely liked all the characters in War and there was no reason to deduct just because I connected with one couple more than the other. I will say, I teetered between a 4.5 rating and a 5 because I didn’t like these characters as much as I liked Pestilence and Sara. *shudders* I’m willing to bet he’s going to be my favorite. I’m excited to read Famine and especially… DEATH. Pestilence and War have BOTH scored a 5-star rating from me. I am two books deep and I am NOT disappointed. I’m honestly so glad my best friend picked up Pestilence and tempted me to join her in reading these books. (1) Bend the rules – but don’t break them.įive simple rules that, while not always being easy to follow, have kept me alive for the last seven years.” And so she must make the ultimate choice: surrender to War and watch humankind fall, or sacrifice everything and stop him.Īnother GEM of a story by Laura Thalassa. However, if there’s one thing Miriam has learned, it’s that love and war cannot coexist. But there’s another side to him, one that’s gentle and loving and dead set on winning her over, and she might not be strong enough to resist. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where she watches her world burn town by town, and the one man responsible for it all is her seemingly indestructible “husband”. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth – Pestilence, War, Famine, Death – four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world.

Laura thalassa death