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Blood and Wrath

Rumer Hale

3.66 AVERAGE

daydreamervx's review

3.5

adventurous medium-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

floofymoosereads's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional mysterious 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: Yes

This is the second book of the reverse harem paranormal romance trilogy, Blood & Ruin. Tropes include second chance romance, reverse harem, a missing mate, fated mates, touch her and die and found family. See content warnings for spice and violence.

The Lovely: I loved the characters and their relationships, especially how the FMC’s relationship with each of the alphas was different. Each alpha helped her and met her needs in a different way. While there was some angst in the first half, I would say the second half was more about comfort and healing.

The Mundane: I didn’t love the underlying plot of book two nearly as much as book one and I felt like the tension just wasn’t there for most of the book. If anything, the first half was more hectic or frenzied than tense.

Rating: 3.5/5 Stars 3/5 Spicy flames

Recommendation: This series became a mood read for me this month (sorry TBR) and continues to be the easy to read break from epic fantasy. The “dream” sequences were some of my favorites, as were those where the alphas tried to comfort and care for the FMC. On to the third and final book!

recklassee's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Yes

devansbooklife's review

3.0

The pace picked up with this book. Lots of activity and fighting, so it was an easy read. I still don't really know what's going on. That is ok. Sometimes, the writing is a bit sloppy, but overall, I like the story. I am not sure if this is Rumer Hake's first series, but I see a lot of potential. Readers that enjoy spicy, reverse harem reads with strong Alphas will likely enjoy this.

dnsbrky's review against another edition

4.0

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

bookishobsessedmama's review against another edition

3.25

3.25/3.5 ⭐️

I really enjoyed book 1 in this series. I felt like as someone who doesn’t read a lot of fantasy there wasn’t a TON of world building, even for me there could have been more, but there was a story line and i was excited to see where it went in book 2.

I enjoyed the idea that the FMC was so close, yet so far and the concept of the dimensions and worlds that they were fighting against. Demons. Dimensions. Underworld. etc.

I felt like there was SO many POVs that sometimes it felt extremely repetitive because you got the exact same info and thoughts on the same subject before we could move on basically. I think a good RH is when you get different things from all POVs. I love smut as much as the next girl but i felt like book 1 had a lot of stress and suspense and so did the first half of this book and the back end of it but the remaining was like alllllll smut that felt out of place. Not only that you get this idea that their feelings for each other are just unable to be broken it’s the strongest pull that one has to another BUT i feel like we were shown smut scenes and that was it in the romance side of this book.

I will most likely continue into the series because i am interested to see where the next book goes in the action side of the story. This author does a extremely good job at ending on a cliff hanger to want to bring you back.