Reviewed by Dan
TITLE: Death
SERIES: The Four Horsemen #4
AUTHOR: T. A. Chase
LENGTH: 190 Pages
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Death, the Pale Rider and the most feared member of the Four Horsemen, has been searching through the centuries for a soul to save him from his solitary life.
In the 1700s, Gatian Almasia was rich and a sought-after member of Parisian society. No one realized he’d lost his reason for living three years earlier. When his sister accuses another nobleman of raping her, Gatian does what any older brother would do. He challenges the man to a duel, and kills him. Later that night, the dead man’s family takes their revenge on Gatian.
Gatian’s death is just the beginning of the journey he must take as Death, the Pale Horseman of Apocalyptic fame. While he doesn’t regret taking the nobleman’s life, the guilt of not being there when his lover died builds a wall around his heart, and until he accepts forgiveness, he must always be Death.
Pierre Fortsecue is a spoiled rich young man whose heart is broken by the man he thinks he loves. Finding himself alone in Paris, Pierre sinks into a haze of heroin. He gets a tainted baggie of the drug, and almost dies from it. Death arrives to take his soul, and something about Pierre touches the Pale Horseman, who steals him away to help him heal.
As Pierre heals and Death begins to feel again, they begin to wonder if love really is the only emotion needed to overcome desolation and destruction.
Reader Advisory: This book is best read in sequence as part of a series.
REVIEW:
Today I’m bringing you the final book in The Four Horsemen series from T. A. Chase. As you know, if you’ve been following my reviews, I’ve reviewed the first three over the last few days, and I personally feel each one has gotten a little better than the one before it, which is good because in my opinion, book one was barely deserving of the “OK” rating I gave it.
Finally I’m up to this current installment, Death. It is almost like it was written at a different time or something, because it is hands down far superior to the first three books.
In Death, we meet a Frenchman named Gatian Almasia. Gatian is a very wealthy man living in France just prior to the French Revolution. While he is far wealthier than most of the Nobility, he does not have a title, so is looked down upon by the Nobles, but they respect him for his money regardless. But when he avenges his sister’s rape at the hand of a serial rapist Nobleman in an early morning duel, the family of that man sends some cut throat criminals to kill Gatian.
Gatian awakens (we’re getting use to this by now), as one of the Four Horsemen. He though is Death, the de facto leader of the Four. Any of you who are reading along with me on this series, will already know this character quite well, since he has been a fairly regular character throughout the previous three books.
Lam, the Lamb of God we’ve met previously, and his new boyfriend (?) Day entrap Death into finding a heroin addict who has just taken a bad dose of heroin. The bad dose was supplied by Day, and Lam has gotten Death there in time to save the younger man before he dies.
What is Death to do? He finds himself drawn to the young man, Pierre Fortescue. In many ways he reminds him of his lost love, who was murdered back in the 1700’s. But is that all it is?
I really enjoyed this wrap up (?) to the series. I added the (?) because there is a still a storyline floating out there regarding Lam and Day, which I’m not sure might not be another book in the future.
I liked Death a lot and would recommend it. It is best read as the final piece of the series so you know who everyone is. Obviously this leaves me in a quandary, because I didn’t rate any of the previous books high enough to warrant recommending them. I’ll have to end by saying I recommend this installment and I’ll let you, the readers, decide how you want to approach the series.
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