An interesting premise for sure. Made me cry at least three times. I read this via audiobook and the narrator is definitely a large part of why I liked the story. Her acting brought great personality to Thalassa's prose and humanized some of the morally questionable aspects of the book.

Thalassa is great at dialogue and sarcasm. She has a really interesting premise. But please understand...the gorgeous heavenly embodiment of plague is busy doing his righteous duty of killing as many humans as possible when a volunteer firefighter is randomly chosen to try to kill him and save humanity. When she fails because HE's ANGELIC and can't die, he decides to punish her by taking her prisoner and having her watch everyone around her die by his hand. Each time they encounter people, she falls a bit more for a horseman of the apocalypse and he becomes a tiny bit more...human isn't quite the right word, but we'll use that.

It's much less a paranormal romance than one would think from the cover. Like...slow burn doesn't begin to describe it...but still their interactions have a layer of complexity that kept me interested. And along the way we really see the best and worst of humanity in the people they encounter.

I liked it enough to snag the next book, but can see where some would have major problems with the descriptions of the plague, the Stockholm Syndrome, and the bleak nature of people that are living through the end of days.