Four horsemen are sent to earth to start the end of days. Five years have passed since their first appearance and Pestilence, the Horsemen of disease, is plaguing the world with sickness. That is, until a firefighter tries to kill him but fails. This is a story of unlikely love blooming in the midst of a dying world...

In this episode of Romancing the Monsters, we discuss: the goodness of humanity and how one learns to love and empathize with another who has inflicted horrors upon them, developing a "human" side despite a strong hatred for humankind and how the struggles of this change affects one’s psyche.

Trigger warning: mentions of religion, severe physical harm, COVID-19, emotional abuse, sickness/plague, death of people including children and elderly, and brutal torture.

Book of the week: Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

Books mentioned:

The Bargainer series by Laura Thalassa

Lothaire by Kresley Cole

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Romancing the Monsters is a podcast that looks at the monster within: the shadow keeping the characters away from true and absolute happiness. This monster can be a prejudice, fear, insecurity, trauma and so on. We believe that romance novels are as much about one's personal journey as they are about finding love.

After all, love makes us vulnerable and forces us to bare our monsters to another.