The Four Horsemen by Rupert Stanbury blogtour

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The Four Horsemen is the second book in the Gods Galore series about the Olympian Gods in the 21st Century AD.

The gods are still trying to control what we humans are up to. Unfortunately, they’re not being particularly successful. The world is experiencing both plague and famine which Zeus and the Gods’ Council never approved. What’s going on?

Athene’s determined to find out, but before she can get going the God of War initiates an attack on Poseidon’s realm. It’s now all out conflict and the gods are taking sides – one side, in particular.

Wherever there’s a fight, Hebe’s involved. She soon signs up to an army regiment which is full of soldiers even smaller than she is. But war these days involves brains and not just brawn and there’s plenty of both ready to be deployed in this fight!

Rupert Stanbury was born in Manchester and lived in the North-West of England long enough to become a lifelong Manchester United supporter.

In his teens he moved with his parents to Central London where he has lived for much of his adult life. After reading Economics at Cambridge University, he had a professional and business career for many years.

As well as Manchester United, his other lifelong interest has been books. He has always been an avid reader, and this led him in recent years to take up writing himself. His first book, Gods Galore, was published in November 2021 and this has now been followed by The Four Horsemen, a sequel. Both books are humorous tales about the Olympian Gods in the 21st Century.

My Thoughts

This author has a great ability to make me laugh with his books. He writes greet comedic fantasy books that are based on mythology.

I love the fact that he uses the gods of the Greek and well roman as well. I enjoy Death even more as he seems like such a person even if he is something special and unique.

I giggled at Death he is such a funny guy as he talks about items that are not what anyone would think would be in his nature.

The communication between Death and Hades is one that I really like as it shows so many interesting qualities.

I am very happy that the author has kept for the most part with what mythology hasbjind of dictated what the Goda were like. I like that fact since it keeps the book grounded for me and allows me to feel more connected.

To me I loved seeing Persephone and how she is not what I expected. She is such a great character who just seems to have so much potential.

The Four Horsemen have always been something I loved hearing about as they seemed to be a plague to mankind and pushing through was something humanity needed.

When reading this book the amount of characters makes it less than easy to keep everything straight. While not easy at times the story was very good. This second book doesn’t feel like a sequel but a brand new story that isn’t linked that closely.

I must say that my favourite character is Cerberus. I love the personality that he shows and that he doesn’t have just a monster way which makes things a lot more interesting. I do like the fact that he seems to be one of the Gods and not what I would have expected based on what I have learned on Greek Mythology.

What I love is the story for this worked well and I do enjoy the four horsemen aspect since it pushes what I always thought and made a new take on an old style clasic

This is very comedic at times especially with names that they have and it just makes me giggle. Names of places can be just as bad and it keeps me smiling the entire way through the book.

I found this book intriguing and that the comedic aspect was what I preferred as it shows almost a Terry Pratchett book as the story has strong characters as well as subtle humour.

Great story and can’t wait for more from this author.