A review by lmayfieldx
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross

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

3.75

“𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐮𝐬𝐭. 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐢 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞”

tw: torture, confinement, violence, war, injury, medical content, death

🗡️ gods at war
🗡️ good vs evil
🗡️ secret romance
🗡️ amnesia
🗡️ dual pov
🗡️ third person

after roman is caught by dacre, iris arrives home and is unsure how to go on. when her and attie are given the opportunity to go back to the war front as correspondents, she jumps at the chance to find her husband. iris must find roman and continue to gather information about the war that dacre is planning, all while trying to remain safe amidst the war

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ruthless vows started at full speed & continued picking up, which i really enjoyed

when i finished divine rivals, i was left wishing that we had gotten more of the mythology aspect. ruthless vows did provide us with more dacre & enva, but they kinda overpowered the book, rather than there being a nice balance between dacre & enva, iris & roman, the war, etc

the war was much more prevalent in the plot in ruthless vows, which i liked. there was also really good character development, especially for iris. she exhibited strength in divine rivals by overcoming several challenges & being perseverant. we got to see more of her strength in ruthless vows

the amnesia trope in this was okay. i enjoyed when roman started to remember bits and pieces of iris. but i feel like he remembered very quickly & wish this had been drawn out a bit more before he started having glints of memory come back to him

some of this story became fairly repetitive & kinda just retold what happened in divine rivals. considering the time frame was just two weeks following the end of divine rivals, i feel like divine rivals could’ve just been a standalone that was a bit longer 

overall i enjoyed this duology & i’m excited to read more books from rebecca ross
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