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A review by lexisbookishburrow
Blood and Ruin by Rumer Hale
dark
slow-paced
2.0
Gorgeous cover that doesn’t quite make sense for this book. I’m not one to usually critique book covers but I felt like I was mislead with it. First off, the cover is utterly gorgeous but there’s no real theme behind it that matches the book whatsoever. The blurb of the book sounded interesting so when I saw it was available for an arc audiobook on netgalley I snagged it immediately.
Unfortunately this story wasn’t a hit for me. I felt like nothing really happened in the book at all and the miscommunication that was rampant in it between the main character and her childhood friends was so exhausting for me. I absolutely hated their banter especially Axel’s. The only likable male character for me was Luca. Unfortunately the harem of her boys weren’t very distinguishable for me and they all blended together. I can only remember Axel, cause he was super annoying, and Luca because he was the only one I actually liked and was sympathetic towards Kiara. Don’t ask me to name the others cause I can’t remember their personalities since they weren’t very distinguishable (besides the author letting us know they all had different powers) let alone their names.
I felt a lot of the information we are given, character powers, etc was constantly being repeated as well. Between Kiara being constantly tortured by others/King, her stepfather, and the boys not being able to control themselves and constantly making out with her not much in the plot actually happens.
If you’re someone who’s looking for a steamy romance this probably won’t even satisfy that. Kiara’s kind of insufferable and the make out scenes seemed in poor taste to situations they were in, especially that last make out scene near the end of the book…
I don’t know, I think I just went into this book expecting something else and I’m probably just disappointed by that. This is the first book in a series and I don’t see myself continuing it.
Unfortunately this story wasn’t a hit for me. I felt like nothing really happened in the book at all and the miscommunication that was rampant in it between the main character and her childhood friends was so exhausting for me. I absolutely hated their banter especially Axel’s. The only likable male character for me was Luca. Unfortunately the harem of her boys weren’t very distinguishable for me and they all blended together. I can only remember Axel, cause he was super annoying, and Luca because he was the only one I actually liked and was sympathetic towards Kiara. Don’t ask me to name the others cause I can’t remember their personalities since they weren’t very distinguishable (besides the author letting us know they all had different powers) let alone their names.
I felt a lot of the information we are given, character powers, etc was constantly being repeated as well. Between Kiara being constantly tortured by others/King, her stepfather, and the boys not being able to control themselves and constantly making out with her not much in the plot actually happens.
If you’re someone who’s looking for a steamy romance this probably won’t even satisfy that. Kiara’s kind of insufferable and the make out scenes seemed in poor taste to situations they were in, especially that last make out scene near the end of the book…
I don’t know, I think I just went into this book expecting something else and I’m probably just disappointed by that. This is the first book in a series and I don’t see myself continuing it.