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This is the first book of the reverse harem paranormal romance trilogy, Blood & Ruin. Tropes include a strong FMC, reverse harem, supernatural beings, fated mates, touch her and die and found family. See content warnings for spice and violence.

The Lovely: I loved the premise of the story and ultimately how it played out. The FMc has her own goals and plans that don’t involve someone else rescuing her. She’s tenacious but also protective of those she cares about. I felt like there was enough different about each of the five alphas to keep them straight and I was able to tell who was who pretty easily.

The Mundane: I would have liked to have seen more world building in terms of the magic system and types of supernatural beings (and their structure).

Rating: 4/5 Stars 2/5 Spicy flames

Recommendation: This series is something I’ve had on my TBR for a while and I planned to read it in the next couple months. However, it became a mood read for me this month as I needed something easy but delicious after a long long string of ARCs (credit to Teresa for the term ARCmageddon). I’m glad I did grab this as so far it’s hit the spot. I lovereverse harem to begin with and this first book was filled with glorious angst. I’ve already started book 2 because I just couldn’t wait.

readingtotravel's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional

3.5

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daydreamervx's review against another edition

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

lexisbookishburrow's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

2.0

Gorgeous cover that doesn’t quite make sense for this book. I’m not one to usually critique book covers but I felt like I was mislead with it. First off, the cover is utterly gorgeous but there’s no real theme behind it that matches the book whatsoever. The blurb of the book sounded interesting so when I saw it was available for an arc audiobook on netgalley I snagged it immediately.

Unfortunately this story wasn’t a hit for me. I felt like nothing really happened in the book at all and the miscommunication that was rampant in it between the main character and her childhood friends was so exhausting for me. I absolutely hated their banter especially Axel’s. The only likable male character for me was Luca. Unfortunately the harem of her boys weren’t very distinguishable for me and they all blended together. I can only remember Axel, cause he was super annoying, and Luca because he was the only one I actually liked and was sympathetic towards Kiara. Don’t ask me to name the others cause I can’t remember their personalities since they weren’t very distinguishable (besides the author letting us know they all had different powers) let alone their names.

I felt a lot of the information we are given, character powers, etc was constantly being repeated as well. Between Kiara being constantly tortured by others/King, her stepfather, and the boys not being able to control themselves and constantly making out with her not much in the plot actually happens.

If you’re someone who’s looking for a steamy romance this probably won’t even satisfy that. Kiara’s kind of insufferable and the make out scenes seemed in poor taste to situations they were in, especially that last make out scene near the end of the book…

I don’t know, I think I just went into this book expecting something else and I’m probably just disappointed by that. This is the first book in a series and I don’t see myself continuing it.

mia_may's review

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adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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recklassee's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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