Lily Pavenent's Reviews > War

** spoiler alert ** This book follows directly the events of “Conquest”. This time, War and Uriel are trapped together in a dangerous and unknown dimension while having to deal with their feelings.
I already liked War from the first book, he is so funny and I was glad to learn more about him, he’s more complex than we may think first: even though he loves to fight, he’s a great strategist and a competent leader. We also learn to like prickly and ruthless Uriel, the Archangel of Diligence.
I loved the dialogues and banters between these two. Unlike Con and Raz, War and Uri already formed a life-long link since Uriel’s mortal life. They obviously take some time to understand that they are meant to be together and to accept it but they become sappy fools and it’s cute. I enjoyed the pacing given by Ambrose’s flashbacks (the flashbacks themselves made me sorrowful); it was difficult for me to put the book away when I had to.

It is a good idea that there isn’t a pause between the events in each book, it makes the style fluent and coherent. I always love groups who stay together in book series as a team or a family so, I was happy to find the other Horsemen again and to learn more about Famine and Lucifer’s past as the Archangel Samael.
I guess all the Immortal Beings need to accept that there is love for them all.

I’m a little frustrated that we didn’t get more details about how the humans reacted to Demons and the Apocalypse in this book.
Sometimes it was like humans had all been decimated already and that they no longer existed or that we looked from afar while they all died painfully during the Apocalypse. Even though none of the Immortals cares about what will happen to them (which makes sense because most of humans will die in the Horsemen’s Apocalypse anyway), thinking about the families, the children… and not having a single clue about how many people survived, it was a strange feeling.

Now, I absolutely need to talk about Atlas: finally, the Horsemen are working with the US Army to stop Lucy’s plans… And then, continue their work. Atlas is the only human we’ve seen interacting the Immortals. He’s absolutely amazing. For me, this guy is carrying humanity on his shoulders. Which is ironic, because his name is Atlas like the Titan in the Greek mythology who is carrying the heavenly vault on his shoulders. He’s so brave and strong-willed, hardworking…
I also felt so sad for Raphael and Michael. I hope they find their paths to each other again. I hope we’ll learn more information about the Dead Dimension in the next book.
After Paul, Uri and War are adopting Alba, so cute! I absolutely recommend “War” and can’t wait to read “Famine”!