Book: Blood and Ruin

Author: Rumer Hale

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an advanced audio copy.

Blood and Ruin may have finally been the book to make me say that maybe these types of books are not for me, and that’s ok. I want to love all books and for some reason, I want to love fantasy but I keep striking out and Blood and Ruin was another failed attempt to bring me into the genre.

This is the first book in the Blood and Ruin series and that surprised me. This did not read like the first book in a complicated universe. This felt like I jumped into the middle of a series and I was lost because I didn’t start at the beginning. I failed to get attached to any characters or the world because of this. 

The story had its ups and downs but mostly I found myself having a hard time taking it all in. This can go back to the fact that I had to keep checking that I was not wrong and this was in fact the first book in the series.

What I found most successful in this book was the twist that happened right before the end and the lack of resolution. For a book that I was generally not interested in it did a great job sucking me in at the end and left me wanting to know what comes next.

Final score: 3/5