Review of Ruthless Gods (Something Dark & Holy #2) by Emily A. Duncan
Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
SOMETHING DARK & HOLY TRILOGY:
Wicked Saints (#1) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Ruthless Gods (#2) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Blessed Monsters (#3) Releases April 6, 2021
This is a backlogged review from October 2019 that I realized was never posted. I received a review copy from the publisher, Wednesday Books, in exchange for an honest review!
DESCRIPTION
Darkness never works alone…
Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Malachiasz is at war with who–and what–he’s become.
As their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. They’re pieces on a board, being orchestrated by someone… or something. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet—those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer.
REVIEW
EMILY, HOW DARE YOU. Y’all are not ready.
This book is cruel and dark and WONDERFUL. Everything it was destined to be. Onyx and obsidian, laced in blood. An inky and monstrous gem of a sequel.
I don’t know how I was lucky enough to get my hands on Ruthless Gods so early, perhaps it’s a gift from the divine or something far more sinister. Perhaps both? You’ll probably have to read the book to find out. And read the book you should.
Wicked Saints completely shattered what I believed was possible in fantasy and Ruthless Gods grabs those possibilities by the chin and yanks them into a deep embrace until they’ve been twisted into something that’s almost out of the scope of our understanding. Truly cosmic horror at its supremacy.
If you thought Nadya, Serefin and Malachiasz have suffered, prepare yourself. You have not seen the extent of their suffering and after reading Ruthless Gods, I’m certain I haven’t either.
This story examines the desperation of love and lies and the love between them. It examines the mortality of faith and the fragility of the mind. It examines the consequences of choices we make while seeking peace, identity and our humanity. There are no good options and one cannot have all of these things.
Your favorite characters are exhausted and their free will is slipping out of their grasp. There’s kissing and broken boys and girls with blades and lots of blood.
You might go into thinking you’ll devour this book, but plant your feet firm because it will devour you.
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