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Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
4.0
★★★★☆ (4/5)
spoiler-free review:
The book follows the divided lovers who once again find themselves on the opposite sides of a war. Iris and Roman are the embodiment of this paragraph from The Great War:
❝All that bloodshed, crimson clover
Uh-huh, the bombs were close and
My hand was the one you reached for
All throughout the Great War
Always remember
Uh-huh, the burning embers
I vowed not to fight anymore
If we survived the Great War❞
The book was a lot more developed in terms of world building than Divine Rivals, especially with regards to divinity and their lore. The tragical elements made the plot more serious and realistic. I did appreciate the heavy emphasis on the found-family trope too—Foster, Prindle, Marisol, Attie, Tobias, Keegan, Helena...they're all such a wonderful support system for her.
Kitt, Kitt, Kitt. My man.
Even when his memories were wiped, he knew Iris. Their moments of domestic intimacy killed me. Their little moments of joy and togetherness as the war destroyed everything else was so endearing. They reached out to each other through thick and thin, and never forgot what they meant to each other.
They way he called her "wife" at every opportunity he got, the way every move he's made throughout this book has been with the intention of keeping Iris safe... that's my husband right there.
Overall, what a lovely ending to my irisroman. cute asf.
Spoilers:
You've been warned.
❛He could wake and not know his name, forgetting every word he had ever written. But he would never forget the scent of Iris’s skin, the sound of her voice. The way she had looked at him.❜
Roman's journey throughout the books has been incredible. He has abandoned everything he has ever known for Iris and for the life he thought he wanted to live, found true love and soulmatism, been separated from his found family and singled out by a God, lost his memories, questioned his morality, found his wife, played a double-agent for Dacre and Iris, risked his live, saved lives, touched death and returned.
Every irisroman interaction felt so soft, and so deep. The way they held off touching each other in Dacre's presence because they knew they'd give away their affection for each other just speaks volumes. But this has never stopped Kitt from flirting, and Iris from flirting back. Them as a married couple, still showing so much tension is JUST PEAK ROMANCE.
However,
I feel like Iris' importance to Dacre as a correspondent never really made sense to me. Dacre never really needed a correspondent to begin with, especially since Roman was only typing missives for Dacre as dictated by him. It was after that point that found his importance to dacre weaken, because he stopped writing articles for the God right after publishing one article.
spoiler-free review:
The book follows the divided lovers who once again find themselves on the opposite sides of a war. Iris and Roman are the embodiment of this paragraph from The Great War:
❝All that bloodshed, crimson clover
Uh-huh, the bombs were close and
My hand was the one you reached for
All throughout the Great War
Always remember
Uh-huh, the burning embers
I vowed not to fight anymore
If we survived the Great War❞
The book was a lot more developed in terms of world building than Divine Rivals, especially with regards to divinity and their lore. The tragical elements made the plot more serious and realistic. I did appreciate the heavy emphasis on the found-family trope too—Foster, Prindle, Marisol, Attie, Tobias, Keegan, Helena...they're all such a wonderful support system for her.
Kitt, Kitt, Kitt. My man.
Even when his memories were wiped, he knew Iris. Their moments of domestic intimacy killed me. Their little moments of joy and togetherness as the war destroyed everything else was so endearing. They reached out to each other through thick and thin, and never forgot what they meant to each other.
They way he called her "wife" at every opportunity he got, the way every move he's made throughout this book has been with the intention of keeping Iris safe... that's my husband right there.
Overall, what a lovely ending to my irisroman. cute asf.
Spoilers:
You've been warned.
❛He could wake and not know his name, forgetting every word he had ever written. But he would never forget the scent of Iris’s skin, the sound of her voice. The way she had looked at him.❜
Roman's journey throughout the books has been incredible. He has abandoned everything he has ever known for Iris and for the life he thought he wanted to live, found true love and soulmatism, been separated from his found family and singled out by a God, lost his memories, questioned his morality, found his wife, played a double-agent for Dacre and Iris, risked his live, saved lives, touched death and returned.
Every irisroman interaction felt so soft, and so deep. The way they held off touching each other in Dacre's presence because they knew they'd give away their affection for each other just speaks volumes. But this has never stopped Kitt from flirting, and Iris from flirting back. Them as a married couple, still showing so much tension is JUST PEAK ROMANCE.
However,
I feel like Iris' importance to Dacre as a correspondent never really made sense to me. Dacre never really needed a correspondent to begin with, especially since Roman was only typing missives for Dacre as dictated by him. It was after that point that found his importance to dacre weaken, because he stopped writing articles for the God right after publishing one article.