ARC Review- Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Spice: 🌶️🌶️

This book has me in a CHOKEHOLD ok. Yes Pestilence is one of the four Horsemen and therefore a harbinger of death via the plague, but he just struck me as one those alien beings or time travelers we get in movies/romcoms that have no idea what to do with earthly things and worse yet — emotions. Oh the horror.

Post-apocalyptic is one of my favorites settings/tropes, whatever you want to call it, so I was already really excited for this one. Catch me running to my local bookshop for the next 2 installations of these!

The Four Horsemen came to Earth and disrupted current civilization as we know it. Then— they disappeared. Five years later, only Pestilence emerges, and starts spreading the plague through every city he travels through. In various towns, remaining survivors try to ambush Pestilence as he comes through town. Sara, unfortunately, is the chosen one in hers. Tasked with attempting to kill Pestilence, she does, but here’s the problem— he’s really immortal. He doesn’t die. Pestilence takes Sara as his prisoner, so that she may suffer as he did when she “killed” him. However, as Sara travels with him, he begins to see and learn through Sara that humanity is not all he thought it to be, and Sara in return learns there is more to Pestilence. The problem is he still has to follow through on his task to destroy the world.

This series is actually a re-release, with new covers and I’m so glad all of these are out because I need to BINGE. Thank you to NetGalley, Laura Thalassa, and Sourcebooks Bloom Books for an early copy of the re-release. All thoughts and opinions are my own.