Ginny's Reviews > Ruthless Gods

Wicked Saints was one of my favorite 2019 books, and my hope was Ruthless Saints would follow that path...but it did not. I can pinpoint the exact point where I was over the Nadya (page 353) and wanted it all to end. Page 450 was when my rating dropped to a 2, and the ending BARELY kept it from a 1. Somehow Nadya has devolved into a whiny, annoying character; I am at a point where I cannot stand her. IMO she was a fairly strong character, I enjoyed her development, and I understand that she went through some stuff in book one, but come on! What happened to her?!

I also got the impression the author was trying to turn Nadya into an amalgamation of Feyre/CelaenaAelin/Alina and it was a complete failure. Personality traits that made me detest Feyre and Aelin showed up here and UGH. The interactions Nadya had with Malachiasz became cringey. She was either threatening him, pulling a knife on him, hitting him, or wanting to jump his bones. Then the whishy washy: I hate him, I love him! I need to kill him, I need to save him. PICK ONE! Jesus, at this point I want to kill him and he is the ONLY redeeming part of Ruthless Gods at this point!

And let's talk about Nadya's power...supposedly she has oodles of power that she doesn't know about and her power can destroy the world. But no one can say what or how. When we can FINALLY see her tap into that power, oops Fade to Black. WHAT?! No, no no don't do that, let us see her power. How the hell did they get out of that situation and no one mentions it? I hate you chapter 33.

Ruthless Gods needed tighter editing, it needed to loose 50-100 pages and a lot of the repetitious scenes. And can we talk about "fuck." This is new in the book and it was so out of place that I hated it and made me hate the book even more. And why is a divine cleric saying it?!

Oh, one last irritation-the passage of time. Sooo based on comments Serefin made, this book takes place over a year or longer? O.o We spend months traveling to a forest, to then spend weeks in the forest. And these passages of time are mentioned in one sentence. Suddenly days have passed. Wait, what? Looking at the map doesn't make sense at all.

I just can't. I am so over this crap. I honestly don't know if I want to read book three anymore. I probably will just to know how it all ends and to see if it redeems itself. But man. I have never been so pissed at being let down than I have been with this one.