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The Ritual

Shantel Tessier

3.84 AVERAGE


Read 61 pages out of 478, and it was enough for me to hate it
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DID NOT FINISH: 8%

Eh insta-lust is not my vibe
dark mysterious tense 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: Yes

Look, you need to leave common sense, any form of respect, decency, and suspend all forms of belief. Absolutely filthy smut scenes with some decent plot sprinkle on top. Also don't question how Ryat has access to all the different drugs that he uses. 

I had a good time reading it but this book had no business being this long

I'm breaking my rule of not commenting on any book for this nonsense. (oh, such important information!)
I don't want to say anything about the people who like this, but... really? All nonsense aside (everyone has already written what they want to write), what are the song names sprinkled throughout the story? maybe a weird advertising strategy? What a waste of time it was, luckily I gave up halfway through. Hundreds of books are waiting for me to read.
dark tense fast-paced
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Blakely was insufferable.
I loved the plot but I feel it could have been executed better. It felt slow at times and I don't understand how this book is "Darker" than books like Hunting Adeline or Taming Seraphine, it is just school with a couple of murders and nothing else, a possessive MMC doesn't make a Dark Romance darker because of it.
I enjoyed Aiden Snow's narration. But I don't know if it is worth to read the next books in the series.