A review by chocchip_bread
Exquisite Ruin by AdriAnne May

Did not finish book. Stopped at 13%.

I know it can’t be easy to write a story involving a maze and make the descriptions make sense for the reader to follow along. I commend anyone that makes this attempt. However, I found this book so disorienting and tough to get through. I’m not sure if we’re supposed to feel this way along with the FMC that starts off with amnesia and considered pushing through just to see if her memory coming back shifts the writing style but from looking at other reviews it looks like that isn’t the case and I’m just not enjoying my time with this story at all. 

I don’t like the dynamic between the FMC and MMC. I really don’t like that he seems to have lots of answers and refuses to explain anything helpful because he’s mad at the FMC. I don’t like the idea of bondage/ropes/pain being the source of using power (must be a kink plot but I’m not a fan). I should have quit 20 pages ago when the FMC was checking out the very anatomically correct p*nis of a statue and my eye rolls began

(clearly real people turned to stone I’m assuming).

I’m seriously wondering if I can trust future Owlcrate romantasy picks based on this being their first box.