1.56k reviews for:

Ruin: La lancia di Skald

John Gwynne

4.5 AVERAGE

mazzythestar's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Sexual assault

lblair's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Yes

darrow84's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

10stormlight's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Wow. John Gwynne is absolutely ruthless to his characters. I am emotionally reeling after this book. 

Overall, it is fast paced and action packed with accessible writing. Very classic high fantasy with quests, prophecies, battles, and several POV characters. The character work is what makes this series really shine for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Slavery

kelsis_book_nook's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-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: Yes

leanne_m's review against another edition

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Ruin is packed with action, betrayals, and a chosen one twist that shakes everything up. 

⚔️ Two for vengeance. One for love. ⚔️

kaitlyn_fales's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

grakso's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

pequenoish's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional 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: Yes

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83/100

josh_nicks_'s review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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: Complicated