Synopsis:
They came to earth―Pestilence, War, Famine, Death―four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity.
They came to earth, and they came to end us all.
When Pestilence, the first of the horsemen, comes for Sara Burn's town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed.
Too bad no one told her Pestilence can't be killed.
Alive and furious, the horseman takes Sara prisoner, determined to make her suffer for impeding his mission. Despite her pleas, nothing and no one gets in the way of his orders to destroy humankind. Only, the longer Pestilence spends beside Sara's bravery and compassion, the more he seems to understand her, and understand humanity. And the longer Sara travels with Pestilence and his plague, the more uncertain she grows about his true feelings toward her…and hers toward him.
Sara might still be able to save the world, but she'll have to sacrifice her heart in the process.
Review:
4 Stars
This is a slow-burn, enemies to lovers type dystopian book told in a more modern time.
Earth is being ridden by a disease spread by Pestilence who is a higher being. He had recently been awoken to reset the earth from the evils that humans have created and live.
Sara has taken the daunting task of trying to take out Pestilence to save her family, but only discovers that he is unable to be killed. As her punishment, Pestilence decides to take Sara as his prisoner as he goes around the world.
Pestilence may have spent a lot time around humans throughout his various time on earth, but he has never interacted with them as he does with his time with Sara.
Despite being Pestilence's prisoner, somehow Sara catches these rare moments where he starts to show signs or emotions and humanity.
The longer that they are together the less Sara seems to be a prisoner, and more of a travel companion who Pestilence picked up along the way.
But as fate would have it, the two starts to develop feelings for each other despite Sara being a human that Pestilence's mission is to remove, and Pestilence being a higher being who doesn't really understand and feel human emotion until he had spent so much time with Sara.
This was such an emotional story. The story was fresh and captivating and had me hanging on to each work! I can't wait to continue the series with the other Horsemen to see how everything progresses!
Happy reading until next time,
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