Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen, Book 1

De: Michael Chatfield

Narrado por: Neil Hellegers, Stephanie Németh-Parker

Four resurrected souls. One Devil’s Pact. One final chance.

Famine, known as Petor in his previous life, joins forces with the legendary figures of Conquest, Death, and War.

Together, they form the resurrected Four Horsemen, their lives reignited by a devil’s pact. Resurrected in the bowels of a forgotten temple, buried under a city in the midst of a siege, they’ll have to find a way out.

The devil’s deals are always double edged, while they breathe once more their cultivation is gone. To recover it, they’ll have to use all of their skills to craft and fight.

Beyond the city’s walls the devil’s contracts await them. Promising gold and access to their devil’s wares. Gear that could change their fates.

If they fail, there is no devil waiting to snatch up their souls—no chance for them to rewrite the last line in their stories.

©2023 Michael Chatfield (P)2024 Michael Chatfield

Finally, Professional professionals

I know it is hard to write an interesting book with extremely competent protagonists and letting them be extremely competent without it being boring. This book does not bore me, and the protagonists are what make it for me.

I like books with strong/op protagonists but if feels like the only conflict in a lot of those books is the main character doing something really dumb (usually because of some crazy character "flaw" that no one who was actually a functional adult much less a highly competent one would do or just because they felt like it) but gets away with it because "look at me, I am very competent/op. I had everything under control. Plus, it is fine no one died anyway.” those books can be fun but left me with a desire for main characters lived up to their hype. Ones that were highly skilled but could still grow without looking dumb.

This book is what I have been looking for. The main characters are professionals. In their field they can seem op. Outside it? They make as informed decisions they can and are completely capable of listening to the expert of that area. Their interactions with each other are believable, not instantaneously close to each other yet still able to appreciate the other’s talents. I highly recommend this book. It manages to still have stakes while also letting the characters actually be good at what they do.

I should also mention that I like both narrators’ work in this book. I listened to a lot of books. A bad narrator can destroy a narrative. It can sometimes take a bit to get used to a narrator but I found myself adjusting to these ones very quickly and I found their Proformance to be skilled and yes Professional lol.

Another amazing series

Another great amazing series from Michael Chatfield. It’s almost as if the guy has got lifetimes of experience that he’s got to get out in to books and this is just one more lifetime He’s got to talk about.

This book is based around for individuals that died and now come together to make a deal with the devil, it’s a very fantasy almost a grim dark fantasy. And I have to say I’m hooked just like I was the first time when I read a two week curse in the 10 realm series .

What an interesting premise!!

There are times that I had difficulty getting through this book. It's an amazing book no doubt but there's a lot of times where they're prep work slows down the amazingness that is this book. Will be continuing.

Better than most of what I've run into.

I like the plot and its interesting to a point. I would like to see where to cultivation takes them, and a bit more of the world lore.

Great Book!

I have enjoyed how it seems a demon is a better buss than the gods. Looking forward to the next book!

Good book, but it ended abruptly

Overall an interesting story. The ending was kind of abrupt like a longer book was cut in two. Didn’t follow traditional stories with slowing action prior to end.

Worst book I've purchased this year

It started off sluggish and descended into casual f-this and f-that as though they were golden turn-of-phrases and, as such, they should be amply used to give the story an edgy feel to it. I gave it until chapter 3 in the hope that the 4 MCs would begin to display some qualities that would hint at some eventual investment in them and then gave up.

Neil Hellegers is one of my top-tier narrators but his performance here was a definite black mark. Stephanie Németh-Parker? Ugh! What a disappointment.

Ehhhhh

I liked the concept of the book, but I just kept losing interest in the story/zoning out. They also kept making references to the 4 horsemen, but never clearly defined which horsemen was which. Are they just 4 people called the 4 horsemen? Are they each supposed to embody what we know of as the 4 horsemen? There were so many questions and honestly no enough to draw me in to find out what happens next. It was just ehhhh.

Ratings Reference
1-Book is so bad I could only manage a couple of chapters.
2-It was okay
3-It was a good story/concept, but not invested enough to continue the story
4-I would definitely recommend and follow the story.
5-I preordered/downloaded the next book before I even finished.

Meh

Kinda drags. Plot not super interesting though initially I was hopeful. Characters didn’t really appeal.