laura thalassa famine the four horsemen book 3

He does not for a very long period of the book.įamine is in no way a passive killer in the way that Pestilence was. Sara begs Pestilence to show some mercy, to stop. The couple cooks for them and talks to them, until ultimately Sara ends up caring for them while they wither away in their presence. In one emotional instance, the leads are taken in by an elderly couple who have made their peace with the end of the world. They are feverish and withering away from coming into contact with him. We also are treated to graphic representations of how the disease eats at its victims. He finds different ways to torture and humiliate her while he travels to spread plague. He forces her to run behind it as they travel through Canada. For her trouble, he captures her, takes her prisoner, and proceeds to tie her to his horse. A Steady March of Terrorsįor instance, in Pestilence the protagonist and narrator, Sara, tries to kill Pestilence when he rides into her town. They are not reluctant villains, they are relentless.

The male leads are also largely more cruel, and unapologetic for murdering leagues of people and inflicting loads of violence on their love interests. Death does not happen off page or in short bursts it is a constant companion to the plot. Thalassa’s work has that, but it is wholly more grotesque, focusing on the horrific over the romantic. It is also not unusual to have bombastic fight scenes where the hero and/or heroine get beaten to a pulp. It stands to reason that writing one part well will result in writing the other. Good body horror, like good eroticism, has a very tactile quality to it. These books are violent in a way that differentiates them from some other dark romance books.

Laura thalassa famine the four horsemen book 3