I thought that this was a good conclusion to the series. However I did feel slightly underwhelmed with it. I thought Death was too big a softie. I almost wish he was a little more brutal based on how his character was set up in the other 3 books. Overall it was a good story just not 5 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an eARC in exchange for an honest review!

And so the end is nigh, Death, the final horseman has risen to finish what his brothers have failed to do but he hadn’t bargained on a woman called Lazarus. For me this was the best book in the series. Yes, it’s the same theme as the three previous books, enemies to lovers with the anti hero showing cruelty to the heroine as he drags her along on his mission but its all about the journey and this time round there was the added suspense of knowing the survival of humanity ultimately rested on the shoulders of one girl and her ability of making Death see that humans weren’t all bad. Plus she brought a little something extra to the relationship that you might guess from her name. Ultimately they were my favourite couple of the series, and that epilogue! I’ll confess I may have shed a tear or two when I read it.

This is the last book in the Four Horseman series and it delivered. The spice in this book is worth the slow burn.
Death as a MMC is hot, he has wings and he’s troubled. Of the four he has depth and an inter turmoil to him. He’s also very romantic and sweet.
The book is also great as we get all four horsemen to end the series in a big finale.
This is a fun series to read, plenty of romance, drama and death.
Thank you to NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books for an E-ARC. This is a voluntary review of my own thoughts.

*mild spoilers*
Death is the fourth and final book in the Four Horseman series by Laura Thalassa. As the title suggests, this book follows the wrath of the final horseman – Death. He has been hinted at through books 1-3 and the little sneak peeks suggested he was by far the worst brother and was frustrated by his siblings failure to end humanity.
After a troublesome ending in Famine, Death takes matters into his own hands.
Our heroine in this book is Lazarus, who is completely different to the other women as it appears she cannot be killed. When Death arrives in Jerusalem and kills her entire family, Lazarus swears to end Death’s violent reign on earth however she can. Death is drawn to her but she is not on the same page. He fights his attraction and tether to her, vowing not to make the same mistakes his brothers made when they fell in love. But Lazarus is different. When he kills her and she comes back to life, following and surprising him, the two begin a back and forth battle which was fun to read. It was a refreshing dynamic compared to the prisoner/captor dynamic from the previous books. Another difference in this book was the introduction the the three other brothers. Two human and one Horsemen who had grown older but felt determined to save their families. Both Pestilence (or Victor) and War had children and wives who were hidden as a safety precaution.
After a brief imprisonment by Death, Lazarus discovers a baby boy, Ben, who she bonds with immediately. She decides to abandon her mission to stop Death and flees, hiding herself and her son.
The book was entertaining, but obviously still had dark themes and moments. I knew there would be a happy ending but Thalassa kept the reader waiting until the last moment for Death to see things in the same way his brothers now do.
I feel that Death and Lazarus’s story could have been told throughout books 1-3 as the four books felt drawn out longer than necessary. There were moments when I skimmed pages because it was either repetitive or drawn out.
Overall, the Four Horsemen series was an entertaining read. The long timeline, post-apocalyptic setting and four heroines that brought these Godlike men to their knees was fun.
Thank you!

Some trigger warnings include:
- Infant death
- Infant illness
- Death
- Violence
- Graphic injury

"He pauses, then kneels at my side again. I knit my brows and rear back a little. “What are you doing?” His eyes gleam in the darkness. “Getting a head start.” And then, for the second time that day, the fucker reaches out and snaps my neck."

When I first started this book, I hadn’t read the synopsis so I knew pretty much nothing other than the basics I learned from the other 3. When I heard the main character's name, I literally wrote “That’s her name?? No wonder she can’t die” and lol’d to myself until it was revealed that she was named because she can’t die. And then I was like, hm, should have read the blurb. 😂

The beginning was great! And, you know, horrific, as you can imagine with her whole family being killed and she’s the only one who survives. But what really hooked me was when she caught up to Death and he tested to see if she could, in fact, not die.

"“My will alone should kill you,” he says, ignoring my reaction. “It does not. My touch should rip your soul from your bones. It cannot. There is only one option left.” His ancient eyes seem…sad. The horseman moves shockingly fast. He grabs me by either side of the head, and with one swift jerk—Snap."

She wakes up and he’s just like, oh, wow, you can’t die and I’M DYING IN THE BACKGROUND😂

Lazarus dies so many times in this book, like, she can’t catch a break. She’s killed by Death and by humans. She’s impaled at one point for like 3 days and…eaten by scavengers – in unending agony. This poor woman. I really liked Lazarus though, after all she went through, all she goes through, she still tries to save humanity.

Death on the other hand. I wasn’t a fan of his. But don’t go feeling too bad for Lazarus, she can hold her own, which I loved as well.

“I leap. For a moment, while I’m airborne, I realize how absolutely batshit and prone to failure this idea is. But by then it’s too late. Rather than land in the saddle, as I so elegantly pictured, I clobber into the horseman. He grunts as I knock him off his horse, and the two of us tumble to the road below. The whole thing is painful and more than a little embarrassing, but before Death can react, I stab him through the neck.”

There was funny moments, which I live for.

“Did I plan on distracting Death with my tits today? No. Will I take it? Yes.”
“Death no longer needs to kill me – I think my own embarrassment will do the job just fine.”

Ben. Adorable. That’s it.

Also, it's not a trope that's done very often, but it was done well here 😏

Virgin MMC

VIRGIN DEATH

Okay, sorry. I'm done. VIRGIN.

I’m not sure when I stopped enjoying it, I think it was near the end, maybe 75%? I can’t remember. Death started to bother me and little too much. I think it might have been when Ben was in the hospital – YOU KNOW THE DAMN SCENE IF YOU’VE READ THIS BOOK. I think it didn't help that I really liked Famine, and was just a little disappointed. Anyway, I didn’t like the fight scene at the end, it felt strange to me? I dunno.

The epilogue. You know how there are happy endings but they’re sad and your chest hurts and you kinda want to go back a chapter and leave it there? MEEE RIGHT NOW 😭😭😭

Death by Laura Thalassa is the last book in The Four Horsemen series. I'm glad that I read these four books but I don't think I'll ever reread them or particularly recommend them highly. They were all three star reads for me so they weren't exactly horrible or anything but also not excellent reads. Just somewhere in between.

Out of all female characters I think I liked Lazarus the most. Her story was really interesting and I never really saw any of her actions coming, especially where Death a.k.a. Thanathos was involved. So getting to know Lazarus was my favorite part of this final book for sure. I liked Death well enough but I don't have anything to say about him that really stuck out. Not my favorite out of the four horsemen but also not the worst.

The first half of the book I was really hooked but once again after that the story started getting repetitive, which really is a theme in the books as I've mentioned before in the three other reviews I've previously posted over the last few months. I don't know what else I can say, it started being similar to the other books and then I started losing my interest in the story.

I thought the ending was fine but nothing where I could say wow what an ending. I had expected a little more perhaps, not only from this book but from the entire series since I know so many other readers loved it so much. But in the end not all series can be equally enjoyable for everyone. It was an okay series but ultimately I didn't quite connect with it as much as I wanted.

The final book. This was a ride. I never expected that Death would fall first and attempt to woo Lazarus. The entire book was so well written.
Each of them have a purpose and they are in direct opposition to one another and they still just can’t stay away from each other.
I really wanted to Gibbs slap death and yet he does have a divine job. His whole purpose.
Laz is determined to stop death from killing everyone.
This series has been so unexpected. And good.

An amazing finale to The Four Horsemen series. I was so sad this was the last book.

Death was so worth the wait and is definitely my favorite horseman. I loved everything about this book. It was so fun to see all the horsemen together at various points in the story. Lazarus was an interesting character with an interesting backstory and ability. I'm really glad the author made the characters a little bit more unique because I was a little skeptical about this book being repetitive. The ending was fantastic and bittersweet as all endings should be.

I should've paced myself because I'm mad that I completely binged this series and now it's over.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books Publishing for an eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

“𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙖𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙, 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙬 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝.” 𝙃𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩. “𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙩, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.”

Don’t be like me and read this book without realizing it’s the last book of a series. However, you could read this as a standalone if you really want, but I’m sure you’d probably enjoy this more if you read the first three books of the series.

With that being said, I did enjoy this read and was hooked from the beginning. This is a story of literally life versus death - Lazarus versus Thanatos. Thanatos and his brothers (i.e. The Four Horsemen) were brought to Earth to wipe out humanity. As you can probably guess from the blurb, the other three brothers have failed to do so due to falling in love. So, now the task lies with Death. However, he didn’t prepare to meet a human who can’t killed - Lazarus. After losing all her family and friends to Death, Lazarus takes it upon herself to stop him. Months upon months she tries to fight him, but since neither can truly die, the battle never ends. The longer the fight continues, the more tension that rises between the two. Once they give into each other, Thanatos learns what it’s like being human and just how powerful love is. But is it enough to save humanity?

Overall, this book is different from anything I’ve read. It’s a unique concept, and I really liked the characters. I loved seeing the growth of both Lazarus and Thanatos. Watching Thanatos try out humanly things was quite precious. The only reason I’m dropping a star is because it kind of got boring and repetitive once Lazarus agrees to go with Thanatos. However, I am interested in the rest of the series and want to know all the horsemen’s stories. Thank you NetGalley and Bloom Books for the ARC!

While I do have to give credit to Laura Thalassa for some of the plot twists that the final installment of the series holds, I was dissappointed with the direction of some of the story. I was expecting a greater amount of reflection for Death, as he was the most critical of mankind's redeeming qualities. War had more of a progression that I would have expected for Death.

Nevertheless, the story excels in one area that is honeatly my sole reason for giving this story four stars, in that our heroine finally had something worth fighting for besides survival and revenge. Giving the heroine deeper meaning and motivation made all the difference.

Warnings: R rates romance, death, gore, violence
Themes: Fantasy, mythology, religious lore, insta-love

Death is a Horseman but it's also a symbol of the end and a new beginning in the Tarot.
That said it's a fast paced, gripping and highly entertaining paranormal romance.
Well plotted, humorous and compelling.
This is the most exciting in the series and the one more fantasy than romance. I enjoyed it
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

As I stated for Famine, this series is just not for me. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this arc ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you for the eArc.

This was probably my favourite in the series! This book still sticks to the general formula of the series but added enough differences that it felt fresh and had me hooked.

I loved the dynamic between Death and Lazarus. They felt a bit more like equals in a way that the other couples didn’t, making their battles and cat and mouse games with each other that much more interesting. Unlike the previous book, I felt connected to both of them and their romance, making their struggles between duty and love much more compelling.

I also really enjoyed that this book had a much more high stakes feel to it with Death being the last chance for humanity and the other horseman teaming up together to try and stop him.

I will definitely be recommending this series to customers as it was a fun read and this final book definitely stuck the landing!

Amazing world and character building, lots of action and well paced, love everything laura writes! Can't wait for the next one in the series!

This is it. It's the end, the death of the Four Horseman series. See what I did there? You know, each one in this really seemed to hook me even deeper. They all bring something to really think about to the table but Death might just be my absolute favorite. There's quite a bit to dissect here if you wanted to get all philosophical with it and I think that's a beautiful quality for the series.

Death honestly is surprising in that he isn't what I would consider the most ruthless? There is something so incredibly gentle and humane in his outlook at times that it almost is jarring. The recognition he holds for those who are left living and grieving the dead was oddly very comforting to experience. The relationship between Lazarus and Death/Thanatos was an interesting dynamic to go through and it was quite a tug-of-war on what side I stood on.

Overall, a fabulous conclusion that offers a curtain to dip behind and really get philosophical on the experience of dying and humanity or just take it as a dark romance and let it be surface level and both just work phenomenally.

Dernier tome de la série des Cavaliers et comme lors de ma première lecture, j’ai adoré!

Vous l’aurez deviné, ce tome est dédié à Death qui est arrivé et qui doit accomplir son devoir, il va croiser Lazarus, une humaine qui a tout perdu et qui s’est fixée comme mission de le tuer car Death semble incapable de la tuer…

J’ai encore une fois adoré relire ce livre. Il y a certes des similitudes avec les tomes précédents mais l’autrice réussit encore à nous surprendre avec des points que je n’avais pas vu venir! J’ai adoré les personnages de Death et Lazarus qui sont forts, déterminés et indépendants mais prêts aussi à faire des efforts pour comprendre les motivations de l’autre. Revoir les personnages des premiers tomes m’a fait énormément plaisir! Ce livre offre une conclusion parfaite pour tous nos personnages en tout cas!

En bref, une conclusion parfaite pour cette série!

Sortie le 15 août pour cette réédition!

Of all the other books in the series, this was probably my favorite. I enjoyed the characters, and how it tied all the brothers together. The ending was also a great conclusion to the series. The reason I enjoy this author so much is that each of the series I have read from her are such different stories/themes.
I would recommend this to readers who enjoy dark fantasy romance. The new covers are also a plus!
3.5 rating

This 4th book in the Horsemen of the Apocalypse series was amazing. Just like the previous books we see Death's slow transition from following his path with complete certainty to questioning. This book has me laughing and sobbing. I enjoyed the progress of the relationship between Death and the FMC. I also liked the brief appearances of his brothers, the 3 other horsemen. Highly recommend this book, as well as the whole series.

how i managed to stick around to read the same book 4 times i have no clue.
this one was a drag and beside his wings - he's the same as the last three. At least famine had his humor. it was too damn long. And repetitive. I found myself skimming a lot especially near the end just so I would finally be done. Which made me really sad, I’ve been reading this series since it began and I thought it would go out with a bang. It went out with more like a droop.

4.5/5 ⭐
3.0/5 🌶️
4.5/5 🎧

I can't believe this story is over... I loved it so much from beginning to end. Death was something else... Heck bent on getting rid of humanity and returning the world to it's more primal state, he stopped at almost nothing, until Laz. Laz was somehow able to get through to him, but it was certainly not without effort. This finale was riveting and I already want to start the journey again.

Susannah Jones and Jay Ben Markson once again did a fantastic job on this audiobook. Susannah has such a distinct voice and did amazing with her characters, female and male alike. Jay did a phenomenal job with Death and the other horsemen, and while I didn't love his Laz, it wasn't enough to keep me from listening again and again.

Death started and ended so unexpectedly for me. I couldn't believe that Thanatos' mate was immortal herself, but it truly makes the most sense, how else was anyone going to get close to him?! I loved how tenacious she was, going after him time and time again, knowing it was only going to end in death (and rebirth) for one of them. Then she found something that pushed her away and you know what they say? Absence really does make the heart grow fonder.

I really loved how all four horsemen were a part of this journey too. And the only thing I think I could have asked for was a longer presentish day epilogue with the four families happy and content. But this was truly an incredible series and I loved it so much.