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RUIN (Slay #2) by Laurelin Paige Release Date: October 29th

 

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Blurb: 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.

   

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.

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Dark, disturbing, raw and gritty. These are just some of the words that can be used to describe this story. Edward is control, resistance and restraint personified. He has a goal and nothing or nobody will get in his way of achieving that goal, except himself. While we get most of the story in Celia's POV, the snippets we get into Edward, from both her experience and from him show he's disconcerted and isn't sure how to process that. I really liked how they seemed to keep each other off balance, whether he admitted to it or not.
Celia goes through a transformation of sorts, a personal growth, though while she does, she doesn't realize the enormity of just how far she's come from where she was on their wedding day. Now one year later, truths are laid bare and objectives have shifted. We've all heard the old adage, hell hath no fury.... well, it's time they're introduced to Mr. Fasbender. I cannot wait to see what the next installment brings.