A review by darcynewtonn
Ruthless Creatures by J.T. Geissinger

dark emotional funny sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I started this on the 18th of February and finished it on the 1st of March, I’ve left it a while to write this review as I wanted some time to think about it because I was unsure to begin with.  I usually like mafia romances and I’d normally go for a forced proximity or enemies to lovers but I decided to try something different. I liked the characters in this book but I all honesty that was about it. There was very little plot and the plot only picked up in the last 30 or something pages, even so it felt rushed. I can imagine the plot then continues in the other books in the series as this book was left on a cliffhanger but this book was too much of a let down for me to continue the series. 

Ive spoken to a couple of people who did continue this series but I’m still not convinced. The romance in this was very insta-love and him being away from her so often it felt more like a breakup getting back together with your ex numerous times, I just wasn’t digging it and in all honesty it took me a lot of effort to finish. 

The main storyline was the fact that her ex-fiancee disappeared the day before their wedding and didn’t leave any messages for her. Everyone thought he’d died as he was a natural rock climber and didn’t come back from a trip. Everything unfolds and we find out that he was married to someone else for their entire relationship with kids too. He was in the same mafia that Kage is and he did them dirty, taking money out the mafia account and sending it to his own off shore accounts for his own benefit. 

Natalie (the FMC) discovers a key and it sooner or later leads her to a different country where she’s talking to her ex-fiancee and Kage shows up.
  Natalie was a brilliant person but lowered her standards way too low just to feel loved by someone like Kage. Not sure just wasn’t my vibe. But then people like different things so if you like a fast, easy, boring dare I say it, read, then this one of them.