Reviews

Blood and Ruin by Rumer Hale

vivibookgoblin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.25

lpcoolgirl's review

5.0

Loved reading this book, loved the world and these characters and their romance, and I can't wait to read more! 

emilymay_2004's review against another edition

3.0

Can I just start off by admiring the front cover? It looks absolutely beautiful. 

I really enjoyed this book, Kiarra is a FMC that I admired, especially after everything she has been through. Kai was hands down my favourite out of all the guys. 

I'm looking forward to the rest of this series, especially after that last chapter. I honestly did not see that last betrayal happening.

fr3ckls's review against another edition

2.0

this was bad.
basically almost nothing happens that makes the story progress and at the same time we really dont get an understandable notion of the characters? just bc the fmc met the people before doesnt mean we shouldn’t get some sort of intro to the characters? a throwback to understand why and how they are important? 
and the plot twist was so bad?

hollymackinlay's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.5

I’m intrigued by the magic system so going to read the next one, but that is despite the writing style not because of it. Typos, bad grammar, formatting errors and generally poor writing absolutely PLAGUE this book. A shame because it’s all very fixable. The insta-love is also very dull, and there is zero character development in this book - but I still have hope for the next one…

charlies_cat's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

3.0

kaia_k's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

tori5497's review

3.25

3.25 stars. I found the plot interesting. Kiarra being helped captive and her going through months of torture to get ingredients to reverse a spell was pretty interesting and I did love how her love interests were written. The last couple of chapters had plot twists but were just kind of confusing. It was like it was dropped with just no context. It also took me 10 days to read and maybe because it was taking me a bit longer than normal to read, I wasn’t fully invested in it enough to give it higher rating. I do wish it was dual pov. Only getting one chapter from one of the guys pov’s at the end was a little disappointing. Overall, it was a good book and I’m willing to give the series a second chance with the second book.

chelseaviolet's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

2.5

Reverse harem with found family. Wanted to try something new and although the writing took a while to get into and was a little predictable to start there were some unexpected twists at the end that left me wanting more.

katalix's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0