Ruthless Gods

By Emily A. Duncan

Book Overview

The stunning sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling Wicked Saints, now in paperback.

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. Their paths are 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.

In their dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in their Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250195705
• ISBN13: 9781250195708
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Wednesday Books
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Ruthless Gods is not as good as Wicked Saints

I wish that I had lots of good things to say about Ruthless Gods, the sequel to Wicked Saints ( a good but not great novel) but outside of the character development which was OK but spotty, and the Gothic/Horror imagery, which was overblown, I just can't. This book contains at least 100 pages of fluff, repetitive imagery and phrasing that becomes brain numbingly boring. For example the use of the word 'Eldritch' was overused so often and out of context as to make me wonder if the author had no idea what a synonym was. Or, the constant self a questioning of the protagonist simply became tiresome and blocked the flow if the writing. This novel was actually in a quasi Romance/Horror genre but did neither well and it read like a draft or perhaps the editor just did not care enough to actually reign the author in to write a finished, polished work. No idea why it's a best seller. Listen, I understand how hard writing is and the author even admitted how difficult writing Ruthless Gods was to write, but I really should have stopped reading this one after 50 pages.