It’s been a few years since I read the last installment in this series, War, so I didn’t remember much of what happened since then. The good news was that I didn’t need to, as this series contains four interconnected standalone stories. And plus, I was in the mood for a post-apocalyptic fantasy romance. 

Famine was about what I expected, and if you’ve read Pestilence and War, the story arc and plot line are very similar. But I enjoyed this more than I remembered enjoying the first two, and it’s because of the protagonist, Ana. She’s a 22-year old Brazilian orphan who spent her life working at a bordello, so she’s tough, scrappy, and holds nothing back. I enjoyed her and Famine’s banter and the way they threw barbs back and forth. 

This story is dark, and Famine is cruel because he chooses to be. But he has his reasons, and I enjoyed reading about these two broken characters who thought they didn’t deserve love, or believe that humans are capable of love, find each other and fall in love. 

I have the final book queued up in my TBR, Death, and look forward to how the Four Horsemen’s stories end.