Blood and Ruin Book 1 by Rumer Hale

Blood and Ruin Book 1 by Rumer Hale | A Review

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Welcome to Quills and Pages; your go to blog to great reads. This is Quills and I am back with another great book Blood and Ruin written by Rumer Hale. This is the first book in the series of same name Blood and Ruin. This is kind of dark horror book with a great edgy plot, a psycho unhinged villain and an amazing sci-fi story line set in modern day New York.

Blurb
Six years ago, my world was ripped from under me, and I was taken to Cardinal Three. A place where pain has been my endless companion.

Witches, demons, shifters and humans all live under one rule.

King's.
What he says goes.
So, trying to get the hell out of here hasn’t been easy.
No one leaves without his permission.
In fact, no one leaves at all...That is, alive.
But I have a plan.
One chance to get out of this nightmare once and for all.
One month is all I need.
One month to stay off King's radar and get the last few items needed for the spell I’ve been working on.
Shouldn’t be that hard...right?
But turns out King has his own plan. One that involves trading me off to the five alphas of Manhattan.
With King's ultimatum, I have no choice but to go through with it. But I’m still getting out of here, no matter what.
Or so I thought.
Turns out the five alphas are my mates…
And also, the boys I left behind six years ago.

GENRE
Paranormal Reverse harem

THEME AND TONE
Dark

LANGUAGE AND WRITING STYLE
Easy to Read

CHARACTERS
Complex Characters

TROPES

☙ RH

☙ Fated Mates

☙ FMC is stuck

☙ Dangerous Powerful Villain

☙ Mystery

☙ Plot Twist

MY REVIEW
This first book in the Blood and Ruin series starts off with the main character's pov while she was a kid and her mother trying to take her and run. She doesn't know what is happening she is at the age where the only thing she cares about is her friends but something happens at that time and her mother dies leaving her all alone.

The story moves forward to the present where our FMC is all grown up and she is trying to run from her present. We still don't why exactly she is running. But as the story progress it became clear she has a special and rare power and she is under the clutches of someone very powerful and she is trying to run away from him and she is also saving someone else in the process.

Story progress further and some alpha hot men come into the scene and they try to help each other out without understanding or knowing that they all have deep connection to each other. The story and plot is all good and perfectly written until the very end when everything clicks together.

There are some very mature themes in the book and trigger warnings. Some scenes were really gruesome to read but on the whole the story is really great. there is a big ass plot twist at the end and now I am very much invested in the story. Totally recommend it.