A review by brookelostinlit
The Ritual by Shantel Tessier

challenging dark tense

3.0

Lisssssten… I’m not ever going to kink shame anyone bc what turns you on is totally personal… but like this was WAYYYY too dark for me. **PLEASE READ THE CONTENT WARNINGS IF YOU ARE THINKING OF READING THIS BOOK*** I had a really hard time reading the s*x scenes and ended up just skimming majority of them and just reading the plot. I mean some of those s*x scenes had me questioning if this book was written by a man and I had to remind myself this book was indeed written by a woman. The story itself was good… wasn’t great but held my attention enough to get through all 600 pages. Although A LOT of it was very over the top and I hated how far ahead the author liked to skip ahead in the storyline at times, for me it just left some big plot holes. After all the hype I saw about it I just expected more and it fell flat for me.