REVIEW: Ruthless Vows

By Denise @ Life With No Plot on March 24, 2025 • ( 0 )

It’s time to finally get back to reviews. I enjoyed it when I was completely caught up, so let’s see if we can get back to that, shall we?

About the Book

Title: Ruthless Vows

Author: Rebecca Ross

Series: Letters of Enchantment #2

Genre: YA Fantasy

Pages: 420

Edition Read: Kindle eBook

Dates Read: February 11 – 16, 2025

Blurb: 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.

Review

Before I get into the meat of this review, I just have to say this: we need to have more duologies. Not everything needs to be a 60 part series! We can have nice and easy duologies where the story doesn’t quite fit into one book, but can be tidily finished up in two. That alone made this a very enjoyable read.

Now about the book itself. I really enjoyed it! It took what we learned in Divine Rivals and basically turns it on its head. We were rooting for Iris and Roman to be together? Well, they are . . . or at least were. Now Roman has lost his memory and has been taken away and Iris is desperate to find him. We still get that new romance feel because our romantic couple has to rebuild the relationship they had, fighting for each memory while still making new ones.

I also just really enjoyed learning about the gods and how this whole situation began. In Divine Rivals, we knew there was a war – that’s where Iris’s brother went, after all, and what she wrote articles about – but we didn’t get a lot of details on what the war was about. Something, something, gods . . . that was about it. In this book, we learn who the gods were, Dacre and Enva, and how the war began in the first place. We even get to see Dacre in action, since Roman is stuck as a prisoner, being forced to use his reporter skills to spread disinformation about the war. I loved how all of this made the story world so much richer and made all the conflict and tension much more immediate.

And we still had magical typewriters, which may be one of my favorite things ever. I want one!

Overall, this book was a satisfying and exciting finish to this duology and I’m so glad I finally read it.

GoodReads rating: 5 stars