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A review by brii_brii
Ruined by M. C. Frank
3.0
This just didn't work for me.
It's apparently supposed to have Gothic vibes, but I most definitely missed that somewhere.
I'm setting aside the abuse and trauma that Beatrice went through because I don't want any of that to influence my review of this book.
Beatrice was hard for me to like. He was constable fainting, or collapsing, and crying. And running. In almost every scene with the Duke she was running away from him.Dominic was supposed to come off as dark and brooding, but he just came off as an insufferable ass and I really did not like him whatsoever. It doesn't help that there's no real character development in this book, nor do you see any part of the characters other than what's occurring on the page at that moment. What does the Duke do when he's not taking a second out of his week to basically fight with Beatrice? No idea.
Their relationship was a joke. There was nothing to it. There was no banter. If we're pretending that them fighting at every interaction was banter, then fine. But other than him calling her a witch and saying that she's spelled him or whatever, I wouldn't have known he was into her as he spent more time ignoring her than not. On top of that, there are no sparks. None. There is no lingering flame. No, nothing. I couldn't stand these two together.
It's apparently supposed to have Gothic vibes, but I most definitely missed that somewhere.
I'm setting aside the abuse and trauma that Beatrice went through because I don't want any of that to influence my review of this book.
Beatrice was hard for me to like. He was constable fainting, or collapsing, and crying. And running. In almost every scene with the Duke she was running away from him.Dominic was supposed to come off as dark and brooding, but he just came off as an insufferable ass and I really did not like him whatsoever. It doesn't help that there's no real character development in this book, nor do you see any part of the characters other than what's occurring on the page at that moment. What does the Duke do when he's not taking a second out of his week to basically fight with Beatrice? No idea.
Their relationship was a joke. There was nothing to it. There was no banter. If we're pretending that them fighting at every interaction was banter, then fine. But other than him calling her a witch and saying that she's spelled him or whatever, I wouldn't have known he was into her as he spent more time ignoring her than not. On top of that, there are no sparks. None. There is no lingering flame. No, nothing. I couldn't stand these two together.