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Ruthless Vows
By Rebecca Ross
🎧 Narrated by: Alex Wingfield, Rebecca Norfolk
Letters of Enchantment, Book 2
Book 15 of 2024

*Spoiler free review* 

When everyone started talking about Divine Rivals last year, I really wasn’t sure if it was the book for me. I don’t always love big wartorn fantasy worlds, even though those are so popular in fantasy. 

But Divine Rivals was so focused on the love story that I absolutely devoured it in 24 hours. I was so excited for Ruthless Vows and to see how their story ended!

Ruthless Vows focuses a lot more on the gods and the war, and with me also rereading Crescent City, it was just a lot of fantasy wars for me to wrap my head around. I think I would have liked it more if I’d saved it for after House of Flame and Shadow. 

I did really like it, and it felt like a satisfying conclusion to the duology. I do love that Rebecca Ross writes a lot of duologies and standalones – it’s so much less daunting than a giant series! 

QotD: Do you ever feel like your book ratings are affected by your mood?

 [ book synopsis ]

The epic conclusion to the intensely romantic and beautifully written story that started in Divine Rivals.

Two weeks have passed since Iris Winnow returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is missing, and the city of Oath continues to dwell in a state of disbelief and ignorance. When Iris and Attie are given another chance to report on Dacre’s movements, they both take the opportunity and head westward once more despite the danger, knowing it’s only a matter of time before the conflict reaches a city that’s unprepared and fracturing beneath the chancellor’s reign.

Since waking below in Dacre’s realm, Roman cannot remember his past. But given the reassurance that his memories will return in time, Roman begins to write articles for Dacre, uncertain of his place in the greater scheme of the war. When a strange letter arrives by wardrobe door, Roman is first suspicious, then intrigued. As he strikes up a correspondence with his mysterious pen pal, Roman will soon have to make a decision: to stand with Dacre or betray the god who healed him. And as the days grow darker, inevitably drawing Roman and Iris closer together…the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war.