A review by natalierogers
The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

2.0

I had a few issues with this book. I really don’t get the need to know what song is playing all the time, I don’t know the songs and I definitely will not be looking them up as I read a scene. I also don’t understand why he had to drug her so many times. I get a few of them were “necessary” like when he went to get her after running away.

What ever happened to her best friend? Why did her real mom come back for two scenes? Why was Matt’s death so rushed… there was this huge build up of what they were gunna do to him and then her real mom comes out and just takes over? Wtf.

I feel like the amount of sex they have in this book is insane. It’s like every other page they’re fucking each other. The ending seemed really rushed too like “oh we have kids they’re about to graduate one wants to be a Lord. The end.”

I enjoyed some parts of it really. I just feel like for so much of the story to be focused around Ryan and Matt’s feud there would have been a bigger scenes during the confessional. Her real mom being revealed was an interesting plot twist but really seemed random and unnecessary.