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Famine (The Four Horsemen, #3)

Laura Thalassa

Start date: October 1, 2020

Finish date: October 31, 2020

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Oct 07, 2020 ❀ Crystal ✿ - PEACE ☮ LOVE ♥ BOOKS rated it it was amazing

Shelves: re-read, 2020-read-list, 2021-read-list

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I had no idea what to expect going in to this book. I wasn't sure LT would be able to carry on the awesomeness we had in books 1 & 2. But boy did she! Damn if that year long wait for this book wasn't hell. But I'll be honest it was worth every moment of author/book update stalking lol. Having just finished this I'm blown away especially by the ending. How I will make it till the release of Death I do not know. Pray for me!
Famine as promised is a lot harsher, crueler and set to his ways than his I had no idea what to expect going in to this book. I wasn't sure LT would be able to carry on the awesomeness we had in books 1 & 2. But boy did she! Damn if that year long wait for this book wasn't hell. But I'll be honest it was worth every moment of author/book update stalking lol. Having just finished this I'm blown away especially by the ending. How I will make it till the release of Death I do not know. Pray for me!
Famine as promised is a lot harsher, crueler and set to his ways than his brothers. Hell he has the heroine stabbed practically to death in the beginning and doesn't bat an eye. I was most curious how the author would bring Famine together with his woman and I really enjoyed the fact that the two actually share a past. A past in which she was the only human who showed him any true kindness, something the five years since they'd seen each-other had diluted. I absolutely loved this book from start to finish and while yes the horseman was surprisingly worse and more powerful than his brothers, I think I love him the most. The heroine too also was phenomenally written. Born in the time after the horsemen came to Earth, Ana unlike our previous heroine's has no memory of the times before or how things used to be. After the death of her parents and being taken in by a horrible & abusive family member Ana is taken in by a woman who thus trains her to work in a local brothel. I mean really though, what else is there to do to survive when the world is literally shit around you. Life is hard enough on a woman alone let alone one in the after of an apocalypse. Ana did what she had to to survive and I absolutely loved how she owned it. Her circumstances absolutely sucked but she did what she had to and good for her as I imagine she was the only person capable of getting through to Famine. Her little sexual quips and innuendos were also pretty funny especially given how Famine reacted ;)
The ending was both everything and the worlds biggest tease imaginable. Death has come down to Earth and he is ready and willing to take out the entire world. That is his plan and nothing will stand in the way of him achieving his goal. Love means nothing to him and his brothers and their wives are also inconsequential. While he claims to not plan to kill them immediately, in the end he wants all humans gone and that includes them. I loved watching the inner struggle Famine goes through. Unlike his brothers who are sort of pushed into a corner when it comes to their humanity, Famine willingly chooses Ana over it all, even the powers he loves so much. Now powerless the brothers and their wives will have to come together to take out Death, unless some magical human woman gets their first. I just can't imagine how anyone will even get close when Death can so easily make souls leave bodies from miles and miles away. I have no idea if Death can be redeemable like his brothers and how he'd ever get pushed into that corner but damn if I don't want to find out and find out NOW!!! Hoping beyond hope inspiration kicks in hard for LT because waiting for this book will be torturous. While I certainly don't want this series to end, I have the utmost faith it is going to knock our socks off, if only the real world doesn't continue to go to literal shit around us like it has. F*cking 2020 lol.

2021 Review (Still 5 Mind*Blowing Stars)

With the final book being released I needed to do a bit of rereading even if it was only with Famine's book. How I could have forgotten the brutal nature and cold heart of the horseman. It's hard to be impartial when it comes to him especially the more we learn of his backstory. It's as easy to sympathize with him as it is to condemn everything he's doing. Along with the heroine readers feel first hand the struggle of human nature. On one hand we really are a horrible species but as much evil we are capable of we are just as capable of doing good. This heroine is probably one of my favorites. She's real and struggled since day one. She's also only known life in the after, having been born years after the horsemen first arrived. Ana and the horseman also have a history, one I completely forgot about that really changed my thought process while reading. Then again how could I not love Ana when the girl continually gets stabbed or killed far too many times but always ALWAYS sticks to her guns. She knows how to be brave even when her insides are jelly and if all it takes is her turning a horsemen to save the world, then dammit that's what she'll do. The end was so epic that it just makes diving right into Death that much sweeter. Then again I also don't want to start because then I will have to finish and for a series of only 4 books, I have been hooked for years now and I'm not ready for them to end!
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Oct 18, 2020 Aly rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, 2020, romance, paranormal, dystopian

This was so worth the wait! I'm loving this series and Famine's story was great. He's so different from his brothers, less human and crueler, although he has seen the worst side of humanity. Famine and Ana also have a different relationship than the others, they met early on when she saved him and then meet up again when he comes to her new town. Ana has also been through some awful things and thinks that maybe humanity shouldn't be saved.

Ana is funny, she teases Famine all the time and tries n ...more

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Oct 04, 2020 Kelly rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

This might be my favorite out of the three books from that series. However, I forgot a few things about book 1 and 2 and decided not to do a re-read before diving into Famine just because I didn't want to wait! I was hyped for this one and I'm so glad I read it. I loved it so much.

The killing in this book was horrible. Famine clearly doesn't love humans and we quickly learn that he had been captured and tortured in ways we can't even imagine for years before our heroine found him when she was s ...more

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Nov 10, 2020 Penny Well Reads rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 0-possible-reread, 0-loved, apocalyptic, p-read-paranormal-romance

I loved it!

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Feb 25, 2023 Ashley Lewis rated it really liked it

“You are a human-shaped headache.”

Famine, the 3rd horseman of the Apocalypse has come to kill all of humanity. Ana, who is currently working as a prostitute just to survive this dystopia the world has become is waiting for him to arrive and see if he remembers her from the time they met before and she was spared. Instead he has her stabbed and left for dead. When Ana wakes to find herself horribly injured, she vows vengeance and once healed goes after Famine. He takes her captive after her very ...more

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Nov 19, 2021 Hayley rated it really liked it

you know the drill. One of the Four Hourseman rides, mets a plucky heroine, falls in love, stops killing everyone...... Formulaic does not equal boring. This one is definitely a slow burn. I like that this heroine is not a sweet but brave young thing. She is jaded, she has done what she needed to do to survive in this world and that's just how it is. Famine has been the worst of the Horsemen so far. He is so over humanity. Overall this was a super entertaining read and I'm off to read Death. (al ...more

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May 06, 2023 Toshita rated it liked it

I enjoyed this book. It was definitely different from the previous two books which I really appreciated because a lot of times in series like this it's easy for the author to essentially write the same book with different characters. Thankfully, that has not happened yet which makes me very happy. There were two things about this book that bothered me however and they are both spoilers so I'm hiding them. (view spoiler) ...more

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Sep 13, 2025 Shan ~A~ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2025-paranormal-activity, kindle-unlimited, title-one-word, title-proper-name, travel, audio, in-series-or-trilogy, dark, fantasy, dystopian

Ana and Famine

It's been a while since I read the prior two books in the series, but the details aren't needed to read this one.

This one opens to Famine being in the town where Ana lives. Ana's employer thought it would be a good idea if she offers Ana to Famine as a gift. Ana is secretly hoping that Famine will remember their previous encounter and makes a different decision than his status quo.

Neither gets what they want.

This book was dark. This should not be a surprise considering what the ...more

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