Pestilence

"Ok so I finished it in hours, don’t come for me. I really love this theme of enemies to lovers, villain’s deep dark twisted purpose questioned by a heroine who’s willing to risk it all for the greater good, even if it means losing what she comes to cherish the most. Their first encounter?PHENOMENAL! The end however, eh. But I’m committed nonetheless, cuz apocalyptic sexy horsemen #sayless "

"Enemies to lovers… very unique plot lines.. post apocalyptic romance"

"Yep I got enticed by a beautiful cover so sue me. You ever just get in the mood for a trashy read? Rhetorical question you wouldn't be here if you didn't. This plot to me was highly interesting but the execution of course was below par.<br/><br/>Let's start with the main character Sarah. False modesty seemed to sweat off of her. Please tell me of a more annoying trope than someone acting like they haven't done a good deed when they have 100 times over. "You saved a man." "No I was just there and it happened it's nothing no no no don't thank me." *blush* And come on is she really ignorant enough to think no one else has tried to kill Pestilence? And oh the inner ramblings. A little immature and eye rollingly annoying at times. I gawked at one scene were Sarah gets hurt and instead of soaking up every second she can so the rest of the world doesn't parish she's like "I'm healed let's go take out the rest of the world." <br/><br/>The book had a nice atmosphere which was nice for the cold fall weather. A little world building which is always my favorite. I loved Tricksy even his silly name. Pestilence character was over all well done. Of course I have my gripes but he was curious and timeless. Though the talking during, and I'm finger quoting here, love making was weird. But in all honesty I couldn't imagine the weight on his shoulders to be put into being to destroy the world. It must be very lonely.<br/><br/>I felt very uneasy about them throwing God into some things. It sound off hand and in poor taste. I am in no way wildly religious but it's unnerving when you mention God in trashy books like it was his plan all along for you to bone her.... So to end this rambling I was just disappointed at the main character. This was also a strange subject to write about riddled with mine fields and to me the Author wasn't careful enough to get around most of them. The cheesy inner monolog probably is what ruined it most for me. Oh and the talk about #lovemaking sometimes while in the middle of the act. Trashy books for me are always balanced on a ledge and it takes one corny conversion to tip it over."

"I liked the parts where they were by themselves or killing actual bad people but the moments where he would barge into a home with kids and elderly, I was NOT happy! "

"Okay, right off the bat I thought this book was going to be a little more apocalyptic than it was, but I still enjoyed myself so I’m not complaining too much. <br/><br/>Pestilence and Sara make such an interesting couple because their romantic arc starts out with Pestilence having not the capability to feel emotions at all. From that point to the end of the book, he grew a lot. He could feel lust, love, regret, compassion, and so much more. However, I do agree with other reviewers that his personality could have used a bit more development. It was hard to tell who Pestilence was aside from his attraction to Sara. <br/><br/>Sara on the other hand felt really well developed to me. She was warring with herself about what it meant to fall in love with someone who was literally bringing about the end of the world! I enjoyed that she felt connected to humanity, but also wanted to make herself happy too. Her rebellious streak was also fun to read about."

"this book is ridiculous from start to end. there were many times I audibly gasped while reading it because every time I thought it could not get more silly, it did. could not take the plot seriously for one moment, but that's probably how it's best enjoyed. 1.5 stars because it made me lol and I read it in a day"

"The romance/love story of this book I honestly was not a fan of. However. I thought the plot was truly amazing. To be able to see the truly evil, hateful, vengeful sides of humans that lead to our existence being destroyed. And to also be able to see the love, the sacrifice, and true kindness that humans can offer to someone that they barely know that redeems mankind. That was incredibly powerful and something I really enjoyed in this book. Ruth and Rob crushed me. <br/>For the romance part, I am all for morally grey characters and for falling in love with them. However this enemies to lovers just seemed incredibly forced. It seemed more of a Stockholm Syndrome love affair than anything else. She would see him wipe out families even the ones who deserved it and then think he was angelic looking and incredibly beautiful. It was very strange. I did like the ending where he sacrificed for her instead though."

"hot"

"I read this a while back, but it's really one of the worst books I've read in a long time. I really don't know what I expected, but it wasn't this. I honestly can't believe I managed to finish this. In fact, this book was probably the tipping point to me saying, "You know what, if I don't like a book, maybe I shouldn't force myself to finish it." I never used to DNF books before I read this one.<br/>I low-key love dark love stories, and I got a serious Hades and Persephone vibe from the cover (the old cover,  not this new one that just shows the Horseman of Pestilence's abs).<br/><br/>But this book was just bad. These characters, and the world they resided in were so flat.  Everything was basically about their romance, and I guess I just expected there to be more to this book than just romance?  Like any kind of development would have been nice but there really wasn't any. We basically know nothing about the post apocalyptic world our main character is living in, and we know basically nothing about her past and who she was before the world ended.  We are told two things: She's a firefighter, and she wanted to go to university to study English. Of the two, the English thing is the most developed. <br/><br/>HOWEVER I feel like the English thing is only developed for one reason, and this is kind of a minor pet peeve of mine in books, but I feel like the author only developed the whole interest in English thing so that she could reference a bunch of impressive literary titles to indirectly tell the audience how well read she, the author, is.  Writers do this all the time, and while I definitely don't think it's inherently bad or wrong of you to have your character share your interest in reading and writing, you have to do it well. If you don't do it well, it's really just a lazy attempt to add depth to a character, or a weird way to brag about how many books you've read, or both, and it doesn't work at all.<br/><br/>Also the whole, Making The Literal Embodiment of Sickness, Disease, and Plague Sexy thing was… well, that happened.  And it is mentioned just how sexy and attractive he is ALL THE TIME. It was so weird because at first, the main character (whose perspective this is in, so we are privy to all of her thoughts) was meant to try to kill him, and then he KIDNAPS HER and she's just kind of like, really focused on how hot he is from basically the word go.  And, like, the world is ending???!!! Please have better priorities!!!!<br/><br/>Also the whole way they fell in love was just rushed and gross.  I like a good dark romance, but this was not that. It was just this Actual Horseman of the Apocalypse kidnapping a woman for no reason and torturing her, and then they fall in love anyway.  The book does attempt to frame it as a grey area, but I'm not really sure this whole biblical world ending thing really has room for the moral ambiguousness that is having sex with an immortal being bent upon destroying all of humanity.  <br/>And, again, there's the whole kidnapping thing, and the torturing thing (he makes her run behind his horse for hours and I'm pretty sure she gets dragged at one point, and that's probably the nicest he is to her for the first half of the book.) And we're supposed to root for these two people to get together? There was nothing grey about this relationship because it was too covered in RED FLAGS.<br/><br/>Anyway if I delved too deep into all of the ways this book was gross and weird and bad, we would be here all day.  The more I think about it, the more I realize how much I hate it.<br/><br/>However, I just want to say at the end here, if you enjoyed this book, that's totally fine.  I see that a lot of people did. You clearly saw something I did not see.<br/><br/>But seriously this book is terrible.<br/><br/>It really deserves no stars from me, but I do all of my reviews on my Goodreads app, and it won't let me get rid of the one star I already gave it."

"Erotic apocalypse vibes"