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Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

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readsbymoonlight's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

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michaelavanr's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Plot holes/gripes:

Roman’s wedding ring! Did dacre not like be like “I took off your wedding ring.” Also “you love someone??”
I also still don’t really get Enva at all. Why does she get to live. Why couldn’t she explain any of this before everyone died??
Also so many places (eg the inkridden tribune) didn’t get bombed like forest just get inside any house is better than the street
Also WHAT DID HELENA WRITE DURING THE BOMBS???

Ok I’ve gotten that off my chest. I just have so many feelings. Still a bomb ass book.
Did I love it as much as the first? I don’t think so. Am I happy I spent time reading this book? Absolutely.
I felt the romance kind of felt a bit flatter than it did in the first one and it was very much like

I don’t know you, oh I remember everything and you are the best thing in the world. Like would have been cooler if Dacre was asking him about iris before he remembered everything! It felt like insta love but we were already there.

The politics and world building was great though and I appreciated learning more about the gods and the war and I really enjoyed Roman’s POV and the whole Dacre side of it. Very cool.
Also interesting way of doing hades and Persephone.

Rebecca I need a map and like a family tree of the gods ok.

Also so weird that both books had the same pacing. Like both books took me 100 or so pages to get into despite already being into it from the first book.

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seregelda's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I was getting bored of the story when my library ebook was repossessed by Libby when I was about halfway through, and I almost DNF'ed it. I'm glad I didn't and returned to finish it several months later and the story really picked up then to the finish.

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mrsalexisrjones's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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juliesleseecke's review against another edition

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emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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nataliebootlah's review

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

“Sometimes I don’t think we know what we’re made of until the worst moment possible happens. Then we must decide who we truly are and what is most important to us. I think we’re often surprised by what we become.”

The duology of Iris and Roman, their enchanted love, and the war between magical gods continues on. In this second installment, we learn more about Dacre and Enva, the relentless gods the war started between. Their backstories unfold as it weaves itself into Roman and Iris’s tender, yet excruciating love story.

I didn’t enjoy Ruthless Vows as much as Divine Rivals, but it still gave me action, romantasy, war, world/backstory building, and complex characters. Rebecca’s writing was beautiful throughout this duology and that was enough for me to love it.

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