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Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

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amanduuhh's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring

5.0

kimberlymichelle's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Narrators Rebecca Norfolk and Alex Wingfield were excellent!
Great story, world building and protagonists to root for.
Love, politics, ethics, magic, myth, journalism, letters, writing, ambition, duplicity, family, truth-seeking, courage, high stakes, heroism and commitment.

Unique and satisfying to have a young romance so deeply rooted in respect and friendship - not just hormones and beauty.

elreads13's review against another edition

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3.75

I had such high hopes for this, after how much I loved book 1, but this was destined to disappoint from the get go for me as I HATE the

amnesia

trope so much. I had to switch to audiobook to get through part 2, because I just can’t with that trope!!!

I guess it was cute that Roman “fell in love again” but it was a lot less believable this time.

I do like the writing a lot, it has some really beautiful elements but still can be cringe at times.

Forrest and Sarah dying was WILD but I feel there could have been more impactful, harder-hitting death… or at least Forrest could have died in a more meaningful way. It almost felt rushed at the end?

Do we know why exactly Attie’s song didn’t work on Dacre at first? Confused af about that part.

I really had it in my head that Enva was gonna be someone we knew, so I was kinda disappointed that she was just a random ass person we’d not met before.

There was a lot of potential there that we didn’t get to explore…

Overall I just think there were a million better ways the story could have played out, BUT the writing is great, I’m heavily invested in how down bad Roman is for

his wife

, and I loved that Iris was more of a bad bitch (

breaking into Museums and beheading Gods

are the kind of hobbies I highly support) in this book. Also love that it was the girlies who

saved the day

whilst the men watched 💅

dancingcow's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-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? No

4.25

nicluvly's review against another edition

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slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

I really enjoyed the characters and world building from book 1. The ending seemed to set up some great angst and tension. So I was dissapointed when this book fell flat for me. It was painfully slow placed. And any tension was quickly disipated by a lot of extra side plots that added nothing to the story.