The final installment of this series does not disappoint! We even get to see glimpses of the other horsemen. The new discreet cover for this book is amazing. Thanatos, or Death, has the most existential growth out of all the horsemen. He has to confront his very nature as he learns about life from Lazarus. Lazarus is an amazing main character. She is strong, loyal and brave. This series is easy to read over and over again. The ending is so good and ties the whole series together while also acting as a standalone too.

Thank you NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books for sending this electronic book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

This book is everything. It was the perfect finale to the four books. Laura knew how to tie this up in the way it needed to be. And Holy emotions. Right in all the feels. There were real tears

A nice conclusion to this series! The characters are well fleshed out, the plot is interesting, and the romance is romancing. Although a bit similar to the other books and not my favourite of Laura thalassa, she is an absolutely amazing romantasy author, and I always recommend her books!!

I didn’t actually realise that this was part of a series so I’m 3 books behind but I got the main gist of it and will be reading the first 3 shortly.

I literally devoured this. At a guess I’d say it took about 8hours in total to read and about 6 of those were between the hours of 10pm and 1am 😭😭. Be warned do NOT read a book about Death and dead people if you want to sleep easy (clue is in the name). Other than putting me in a cold sweat from head to toe in fear which is actually a testament to the excellent writing I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. The way everything was described in such detail made it that much more immersive. The humour sprinkled throughout had me snorting with laughter, if being an author didn’t work out Laura Thalassa could have been a comedian.

The only reason this book isn’t getting 5 stars is because Death really got on my nerves with the whole “I’m not human” “I can’t make choices” rubbish but I know that was genuinely the point of the story so it’s forgiven. I really love the style of writing so you can now all watch me read the entire Laura Thalassa backlog instead of doing my summer reading 😍😍

Unexpectedly and Bittersweet.
The last book of The Four Horsemen series ..
I wouldn't have thought Death would be this way. I imagined him totally ruthless more like an awful being .. and it was so unexpectedly good.
Love Death character in this story .. and the twists and turns were absolutely fabulous ..
Read if you like:
Forbidden love
Paranormal romance
Enemies to lovers
Close proximity
Magnetic chemistry
And more ..
..
Special thanks to the Author, Publisher and Netgalley for this ARC. The opinions here are on my own.

What an end to the series! Death was such an interesting character, completely naive in the absence of interaction with any living beings as a result of his mission and his powers. It made it easy to grow fond of him despite all the lives he was taking as he wound his way across the US. When his investment in the relationship between him and Lazarus was revealed I think my heart melted a little bit. His loneliness was so very human but so was his somewhat playful behaviour - if fighting can be called playful! It was interesting to see this horseman so different from the others. I don’t want to pick favourites, but maybe he’s mine? Don’t tell his brothers.

There’s a lot of complex emotions introduced to Lazarus’ character throughout the book as well as her relationship with Death evolves and when her own circumstances change. She’s definitely a powerhouse and it’s hard to blame her for falling for this life-ending horseman when he’s such a strange contrast of sweetheart and killer.

I think the icing on the cake was the inclusion of the other horsemen in this book. It was interesting to see the dynamic between them and they also brought a bit more humour to the narrative. I would say though that Death’s voice does seem to change between Famine and Death and I wasn’t expecting him to be the way he was based on his introduction at the end of the previous book. That being said, I wouldn’t have him any other way!

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This was definitely my favorite of the series. Death was not who I expected him to be. I really enjoyed the parts the other Horsemen played in this story as well.

Thank you Netgalley for this e-ARC.

What a beautiful end to a wonderful series. I cried at the end. This series means so much to me and I can’t thank Laura Thalassa enough for creating these horsemen and these strong female leads.

Death is the last book in The Four Horsemen series and in this one we follow Lazarus, a young woman who cannot die. She knew about her deathlessness before she met Death in person but God’s last angel is surprised and intrigued by her presence. As well as being off put about his feelings towards her. Lazarus resolves to stop the final horseman but with both of their inabilities to die it becomes a cycle they both hate and relish.

In come the other three horsemen. Pestilence has aged since he’s been mortal for longest (I’ve got a soft spot for him). War is charming and blunt as ever and Famine is in a bad mood as always. They form a plan with Lazarus to stop death; Seduce him. And hopefully change his mind about ending the human race.

I like that the attraction between all the main couples is motivated by the fact that the women are intentionally put on a collision course with their perspective horseman. So the enemies to lovers slow burn is that much sweeter.

There is a plot point in this book that I was afraid would bog down the story but it’s conveniently brief and gives Lazarus more motivation to stop Death.

The fact that Death’s tattoos are everywhere, and I mean everywhere if you catch my drift, made me laugh.

I love how all of these stories have essentially the same set up but feel so distinct. All our FMCs are strong, intelligent and willing to give the horsemen a piece of their minds.

There is a sweet epilogue in the end letting the reader know that all the horsemen got their HEA and that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

If you like enemies to lovers, post apocalyptic, fantasy romance this series if for you. The slow burn in these books are agonizing and amazing at the same time.

Thank you to NetGalley and Source Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. And a round of applause for Laura Thalassa for getting me out of a very long reading drought. The horsemen will forever be my boys.

That Ending Blew me away

Well, it's been a blast reading this series, but now "Judgement Day has come to the City of Angels" what a fitting ending to happen in a place called the 'City of Angels'

Now, this is the part where I repeat what I have said in the previous 3 books
If you are reading this for the smut and Romance only, please stop. there is like 5% smut?! and yes the Romance is the core theme here, but it is more than that

like all the books in the series, this one also was about
Choice
Love
Acceptance
and Redemption

Death, the ultimate destroyer, has risen after his brothers, supposedly, failed their tasks
and if you think that Pestilence, War, and Famine were about the "job", you haven't met Death yet.
Because he is the JOB. He is so determined to execute his ordained task that not even his love interest and three brothers could stop him.

Lazarus, a fitting name, is the most unlucky female of the whole series. She had to lose her paternal parents to Pestilence, then lose her entire adoptive family to Death. Add to that, her inability to die, for some reason, she was stabbed, shot at, impaled, and neck snapped (several times by Death himself) and still kept on going determined to stop Death. In a way, she is the opposite of Death. She is LIFE

and like the other ladies in the series, to put it in Ana's words, she has to save the world by <"Pussy Power". The minute Death sees her, he knows immediately she is destined for him, his "kismet" and the book progresses to be a cat-and-mouse game of her trying to kill him and him trying to win her over to his side.

'I see the best in humans, and he sees the best in me, and I'm not sure whether we're both fools for it"

Death "Thanatos" (and I couldn't help myself laughing remembering Thanos from the Avengers who could kill half of humanity with a snap of his fingers) is the ultimate "Virgin" on anything human. He was like a teenager discovering porn for the first time.

Somehow, I imagined him differently based on how he appeared in the other books.
because of that, I expected the one to bring him to his knees to be more cunning or forceful.

Laz was timid and though she was written to be this resourceful character, she fell short.
I liked how she did not give in to Death and kept running from him then tracking him down
but somewhere along the line, because there was nothing to hold her to stay with him, she meets a baby who like her did not die and she got attached to him so much as she agreed to seduce Death to save his life.

I did not like this part because it felt rushed and forced. Because from that moment, everything Laz did was for Ben. She says she loves Death, but does she? and why? her love was not clear like Sara, Miriam and Ana.

Also, I wished this book was not set in the States. I liked the idea of having each of the previous books set in a different continent. I wished this one was in Africa or Europe.

The book dragged on in the middle with over-repeated incidents. Laz wanted to show Death humanity but only shows him one family through a window!!! and any other encounters they had were with marauders and highwaymen that proved to Death why humans are bad.

I wanted to see more interaction between Death and his brothers. This, after all, was the closing book of the series. Maybe if the writer had the ladies show Death the benefits of being human? I don't know

BUT MY GOD! THAT ENDING
THE ENDING ALONE LIFTED THE BOOK FROM 3 STARS TO 4 STARS
because I FUCKING CRIED!😭😭😭😭😭😭

4⭐️ 3🌶️

I was a little hesitant to start this book because I have loved this series so much and I didn’t want it to be over.

I loved Lazarus! Laura wrote such amazing FMCs for this series. I loved how strong and determined she was. Her own powers made her pretty remarkable and the perfect person to try and work against Death.

That being said I struggled with this book the most because I just didn’t love Death. But it would be pretty hard for anyone to live up to Pestilence and Famine who were my favorites in this series.

I did love the banter between Death and Lazarus and this book was the epitome of enemies to lovers.

I loved seeing the other three Horsemen and this book cemented Famine as being my favorite brother.

Overall I still really loved this series and I’m sad it is over.

I, once again, had mixed feelings about Death, the fourth and final installment in the Four Horsemen series.

In terms of characters, I LOVED Lazarus. I was intrigued with her mysterious ability to survive everything and I loved how that posed such a challenge for Death. I loved her kindness and loyalty and I loved her fierceness when she decided to take on Death and fight for mankind, even if mankind didn’t always treat her fairly. But when it came to the other main character, Death… I was a bit underwhelmed. Maybe it’s because I’d been looking forward to his books most of all and my expectations were a bit too high… but I missed some personality. I thought I would love this horseman the most of all, and yet he felt a bit bland compared to his brothers.

In terms of pacing, my feelings were also mixed. I flew through the first half of the book, in which Lazarus and Death act as nemeses and thwart each other at every possible opportunity. It was fun, it was different and it had me hooked. But then the final 50% dragged a bit. Once Death took Lazarus prisoner, the story felt again too much like the previous books and was too repetitive.

I do have to mention the appearances of the other 3 horsemen. I LOVED seeing Pestilence, War and Famine again and enjoyed their interactions with Lazarus, Death and each other. I do wish we had some more Sara, Miriam and Ana too, but I understand it was not their story.

Overall though, Death was a satisfying and fitting, if a little predictable and repetitive finale. The epilogue did have me tearing up a bit, I’m not gonna lie.

This was a very satisfying end to the quartet. Lazarus and Death were such interesting characters to follow. I really loved Lazarus because she was so feisty. There wasn’t a moment in this book that Death had it easy when it came to her and I truly loved that. Their chemistry was amazing and I loved how all the characters from previous books came together and brought about the conclusion.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for the E-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This book was the perfect ending to an amazing series!
I couldn't put the book down. It made me cry and laugh. I truly didn't want the story and whole series to be over. I enjoyed how the relationship between Death and Lazarus developed slowly over time. She teaches him humanity is worth saving and in the process teaching him love. I highly recommend this book and the other 3 of the series. I can't wait to read other series from this author.

Death by Laura Thalassa is the final book in the Four Horsemen series. One thing with this series is that it got progressively better. I love interconnected standalone romance books because I feel a deeper connection to the characters as the stories continue, The cameos of the other horsemen did not disappoint and was really fun to read. I love having already read their books and seeing them being featured in this one. If you loved the other books in this series, I think you will enjoy this epic finale. However, I do think as far as couples go, Death and Lazarus were my least favorite but I think the plot and the features definitely carried this story.

This was my favorite of the four. It really felt like a real enemies to lovers. The back and forth of murdering each other was quite fun for me. They made murder into flirting lol. This one out of the four also had the most tension. They really wanted to be together but their causes always clashed.
The story being broken up into three parts was just a little weird for me. The same issues that I had in the others I had in this one. It was a bit repetitive and lengthy, but I read it in a day so it wasn't anything truly bad.

✨️ touch her and die
✨️ forced proximity
✨️ enemies to lovers

Thank you NetGalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

It would be the emo horseman that would be my favorite. Saying that. I somehow messed up my reading order. I read this before Famine. I didn't feel like I was missing anything though in this book. I will be going back and reading it though! He seems to be a funny guy.

I adored this book so much. I love the back and forth with Death and Laz during the first part of the book. I adored their growth together. They were just so cute. Death was absolutely just waiting for someone to show him love.

The other horsemen showing up in this book was just the best thing ever! Their banter is hilarious. I got such a pang of joy when War met Laz and called her Death's Wife! The nostalgia of "wife" had me dying. I already said Famine has awesome humor. I'm excited to go back and read his book. Pestilence (Victor) was the sweet warm big brother type that I adored.

The battle at the end was wild! I was not sure what was going to happen. I definitely didn't predict that series of event happening.

That epilogue was just an absolutely perfect ending to the series.

My only annoyances with the book were Ben and Death confusing me. The whole Ben story line didn't really hit home with me. I think if we would have seen more of their interaction on the run together maybe I would have cared more. It just seemed thrown in there to me. As for Death, I got confused because at least twice I thought he decided to join the good guys, but then the next minute was like nah, I have duty! Neither of these were excessive or had any negative effect on the story.

Highly recommend the series to anyone who loves paranormal romance.

No Cheating. No OW/OM Drama.

Daddy Death. Thanatos. He was everything I didn't know I needed. Didn't we all think he was going to be this ruthless killer? HAAAA. Yeah, I did NOT think he was going to be such a cinnamon roll and that Famine was going to be the sassiest, rudest, cruelest (and funniest) of the four brothers. Either way, I was pleasantly surprised and I loveeeeeed that my sweet bby was so obsessed with Lazarus 🥹 and him calling her "Laz" or "kismet" 🥹 A PRECIOUS BEAN, yes, but that man is also SPICY 🥵🫠

I was also GIDDY every single time Pestilence, War and Famine were in any of the scenes. I've missed those guys. Their banter, their relationship with each other, their behaviors.

there were definitely some flaws. I went back and forth between a 4 and a 4.5 because Lazarus annoyed me at times and the book could have probably been at least 100 pages shorter, but with that being saidddd - I didn't want this series to end. I was so sad when it did and then cried like a baby while reading the epilogue 🤧

a few quotes I love—
“𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆, 𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔. 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖.”

“𝑻𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉, 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒆’𝒗𝒆 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆.

“𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒅—𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒅—𝑳𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒔. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒖𝒑 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏.”

“𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅.”

Death knows all souls for they are his to take. So when he is sent down to earth as the fourth wave to end the world, the last thing he expects is a mystery. Lazarus has never been able to die. Found in the ruins of an abandoned city as a child, she meets death for the first time before she can speak. But her death never seems to stick. When Death tries to kill Lazarus, he fails. For the first time in the history of humanity, there is a soul he doesn’t recognize. For her part, Lazarus is approached by the other horsemen with a simple task: seduce and kill Death himself.

I must admit that this is by far one of the weirdest fantasy/dystopian/apocalypse romance series I’ve ever read. And by now, that’s saying something. These books should not have worked. Romances with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—who are literally Death and War and Famine and Pestilence? Who could ever come up with such an idea? I’m so glad Laura Thalassa did, however, because I thoroughly enjoyed each book in the series I had an opportunity to read. Death, the conclusion, is by far my favorite.

This book is exactly what enemies-to-lovers should be. I love the “I am drawn to you but oh wait I have to kill you but oh wait I don’t want to” thing that Lazarus and Death had going on for most of the novel. Lazarus was sympathetic and resilient while still managing to seem like a legitimate person. Death was swoon-worthy (a strange way to describe Thanatos, I’m aware), and combined traits that seemed almost human with an angel that was otherwise far from. I adored how gentle these two were to each other. Once again, I’m aware of how strange that sounds. How can Death be gentle with a mortal? But Thalassa pulled it off.

The action sequences of the novel were the weak points. A lot of the physical conflict didn’t feel believable, and especially since Death was a lot less violent than his brothers (though no less possessive), the over-the-top fight scenes didn’t work. It’s a small thing, but Lazarus was able to fight with little to no training. I get that she has grown up in the shadow of the apocalypse, but a few mentions of past experience would be helpful. As a small thing, the author changed which pronouns she ascribed to God in this novel. The last two books refer to the Lord as a “He” but God is “She” in the novel. I don’t care which pronoun is used for an entity beyond human perception, but consistency would have been appreciated.

At the end of the day (or the end of the world if I’m staying on theme), Death was much more fun than it had any right to be. I found myself laughing, crying, and blushing all within the span of a few chapters. If you’re looking for a romance series that’s just a little out of the ordinary, I highly recommended giving this one a shot.

Well, here we are. We made it. And if you were expecting anything different from this finale.. you will be disappointed. It is very much in line with the rest of the series; for better or for worse (I know which camp I fall into).

The only thing that really stood out in this one was Lazarus, our too-on-the-nose named female lead, who, well. Can't die. So naturally matching her up with Death makes sense. And she does basically what every other female lead did before her : tries to stop, and or kill, the horseman. And when that fails, when they ponderously go from place to place, they fall in love, blah blah, see aforementioned repetition from every previous review of every previous book in this series.

Listen, obviously this wasn't the journey for me. I thought it could be fun, or at least silly in an entertainingly sexy way, and the only one that gave me any kind of enjoyment was book two. So there's that. But overall this was very much one of those series that just recycles the previous book's format, with slightly different flavours, but not so different you ever forget that you've basically read it all before. And if that's your jam, you should absolutely pick these up. If it's not, avoid like the.. well, plague.

This now makes for two series I've read by Thalassa and both were.. pretty mixed but leaning more into the meh than anything else. So I think this might be the last I read from her. But we'll see.

I read all of these when they were indie books I’m so glad she’s getting a publishing contract they’re good reads!