Ruin by Laurelin Paige is so thrilling and verged on taking me out of my comfort zone. I LOVE IT!

With her heart literally in his hands, Celia will have to try and bargain with a devil.

Edward Fasbender is my captor.

Trapped on this island he owns everything on--including, it seems, me.

He told me he would break me, but I thought he meant in the bedroom. It turns out Edward is playing a completely different game.

And he won't stop until he's ruined me.

Slay Two: Ruin is the second book in the Slay Quartet. Slay One: Rivalry should be read first.

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MY REVIEW

Slay: Ruin is definitely an intense second book to the Slay Quartet. Psychological and intense, it takes both our main characters and breaks them down and opens them up.

Although there are intimate scenes, they are few and far between but they are definitely sexy. This book is more about the characters themselves. Their psyches, emotions and past traumas. It is so well done, I was transfixed.

I loved getting to know the vulnerable side of Celia. It’s not just one scene, but many of her sharing and then shedding the vile build up from past trauma and history.

It is the story of the feeling and the unfeeling and how together they are learning to just be.

Hudson and Celia have met their match In each other.

Hudson’s power and command over Celia are all encompassing. He is more than a match for her. The tension between them is exciting and thrilling.

Celia has been immune to feeling for so long and now Hudson is bringing out every emotion. Passion, pain, desire, anger, regret and so many more.

She hates feeling vulnerable and exposed. He does nothing but make her feel that way, which is exactly what she needs. He is breaking her down piece by piece and begins to mold her. Make no mistake, she has a hold on him as well. There is also an intimacy between them that is built up. It’s all so very intricate, interesting and well done. It’s psychologically intense.

Hudson thinks he has her all figured out but she still has her secrets.

Ruin is so thrilling and verged on taking me out of my comfort zone. I LOVE IT!

I received an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

EXCERPT

Yes, she was calculating and manipulative, and she was very spoiled about getting her way, but that was all surface. She was an onion. There were layers and layers underneath, parts of her that she held away. Parts she showed no one. For whatever reason, I’d caught sight of what she kept hidden, whether she’d meant for that to happen or not, I couldn’t be sure. Regardless, I was captivated. There was so much to see there, so much to take down. So much of her to know and own and destroy and redesign, and like an old habit, I couldn’t break away.

She was an addiction, and I wanted to feed on it. She wasn’t supposed to be like that.

She wasn’t supposed to want to bend to my whims. She wasn’t supposed to open up and give what I asked for. She wasn’t supposed to be so eager to take what I gave her. She certainly wasn’t supposed to see past my own curtain, wasn’t supposed to ask to see more.

I’m here for this, she’d said.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

With millions of books sold worldwide, Laurelin Paige is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling Author. She is a sucker for a good romance and gets giddy anytime there’s kissing, much to the embarrassment of her three daughters. Her husband doesn’t seem to complain, however.

When she isn’t reading or writing sexy stories, she’s probably singing, watching Game of Thrones or Letterkenny, or dreaming of Michael Fassbender. She's also a proud member of Mensa International though she doesn't do anything with the organization except use it as material for her bio. She is represented by Rebecca Friedman.