I hoped I would like this more than I did.

Truthfully, the characters bored me. I didn’t find them to have much depth and I didn’t care for the relationship between Pestilence and Sarah either. Stockholm Syndrome meets Horseman. Their relationship felt bland to me and honestly a bit unbelievable. The enemies to lovers didn’t feel natural in this book. I’m not a fan of the obsessive possession either. <spoilers>They have sex and then immediately Pestilence expects Sarah to marry him because “she’s his and he won’t share?” And trying to lock her up? No thanks lol. Not to mention him shaming her for not being a virgin.</spoilers>

This also felt incredibly repetitive to me. <spoilers>It was just a rinse and repeat with going to people’s houses and watching them die before moving on and doing the same thing.</spoilers>

I started reading this because I desperately wanted a good Four Horsemen book but this was too little destruction and too much cheesy romance for my liking. <spoilers>The reformed Pestilence at the end bored me to no end. I was groaning at the fact that he turned away from his “nature” and chose a life amongst humans. Again, just not my cup of tea. I was much rather hoping for some doom and destruction as he followed his purpose with maybe some angst between Pestilence and Sarah having differing views?</spoilers>

This partly was my fault because I was so hoping for this book to be something that it clearly was not but it seems impossible to find what I’m looking for.

I’m torn between wanting to try reading the second book, since one of the main reasons I didn’t like this one was a dislike for the main characters. Hopefully the second one has more likable characters for me, but the blurb sounds very similar in plot structure to book 1.