#ruby landers

Ahhhh this was phenomenal! I loved this even more than Only Hope and definitely sits firmly as my second fave Ruby Landers book (Ribbonwood’s gonna be pretty hard to beat).

I loved how nuanced Estella Grant is. She’s fierce, dangerous, deadly, sexy. But she’s also compassionate, she has a big heart, she wants to right wrongs and help people. I love the length’s she’s willing to go to protect women who need it. This is how you make me fall in love with a mob boss.

Ellie was a really great character, too. A little naive at times, but never stupid and always headstrong. She went after what she wanted with a commendable ferocity and I loved that about her so much.

I loved how much of this book was about these characters separate from their romance. But oh, their romance. It was exhilarating and soft and spicy and ugh it had my whole heart.

All the side characters in this one are so incredibly well written, too. They all feel like full, complex characters and they were so easy to fall in love with.

Thank you so much to the author for providing me with an e-ARC! All opinions are my own.

I loved this so much. Ruby Landers writing never fails to make me feel things, to be comforting, to feel absolutely right as soon as I start.

I loved Hope and Alison so much. They’re both loud, confident, opinionated and bossy. Both kind, compassionate and loyal as hell. But they’re both so wildly different from each other, too, in ways I can’t quite articulate.

I loved the slow burn of it all, the way they were both definitely attracted to each other from the start but both settled on being friends, only to proceed to pine for each other for the whole book. It was absolutely wonderful. I was living for it.

Books pictured (left to right):

☘️ The West Wind by Alexandria Warwick

☘️ Graceless by Ruby Landers

☘️ Set the Record Straight by Hannah Bonam-Young