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A Ruin of Roses

K.F. Breene

3.58 AVERAGE

mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Decent. I wish they had committed to "midevil world" or current world gone backward. It seemed to switch. 

Lame, lame, lame.
Pessimo come fantasy, mediocre come erotico, fallito come retelling e pietoso in generale. La scrittura è imbarazzante, i personaggi all over the place e io non capisco perché qualcuno dovrebbe pagare per la brutta copia di qualcosa di già brutto, ma che si può trovare grati su Wattpad.
adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous dark lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Samples a but from beauty and the beast but has heavy demon takes over the world vibes that are more fantasy than fairy tale. 
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loreleianderson's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH

I read about 60 pages but the lecture was excruciating! Then I DNFed. I won't waste my time with a book I don't like and FMC who I can't stand. Do people actually like that book?

The reviews said how "The protagonist is funny", etc etc etc. Surprise! She wasn't funny at all only trying harder to be "different". Of course, as a teen she invented a cure for some diseases, of course, she was 180 cm tall, of course, she was the most desirable in her village and crap like that. Yada yada yada.

There were sexual scenes which made me uncomfortable because of how unnecessary they were, e.g. the incubus scene at the start,

The book felt like a fantasy written by a 13-year-old on Wattpad and it should have been digital because fucking trees were involved! Poor trees could have been used for oxygen not for this fucking book.

This book left me with a bad aftertaste, like the day after eating garlic.

not my favorite writing style but i enjoyed this a lot

So I liked the story and description that the writer told but I kept getting frustrated with the spicy scenes. I was 250 pages in, even though there was some action, but there was never consummation until a lot later. Other readers called this book spicy but its more mild to my taste.
adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

On the fence for this book. World felt too convoluted, fmc was the most beautiful and clever, mmc too broody. But there were fun moments and I liked the side characters a lot. Don’t think I’ll be continuing.

melossomeness's review

4.0
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A