This was a really enjoyable addition to the Dark Olympus series, but it felt like there was simultaneously too much happening and not enough happening at moments throughout the story.

I loved learning more about Eurydice and seeing her find her place. She really comes into her own in this book and it was great to see. I also loved Charon. He's a great character and it was interesting to see more of Hades and the inner circle in the lower city. We also got to see a lot of Hades and Persephone in this one which was nice.

I didn't love Orpheus. I wanted that man to GROVEL but it felt like he went too hard about it and was forgiven too quickly. I enjoyed the dynamic between Eurydice, Charon, and Orpheus, but I feel like the relationship moved too fast.

ALSO that ending. I actually gasped when I got to the last page because I was so sure there would be more. I feel like the ending was very abrupt and I would have loved at least an extra chapter to tie it all together.

I'm still really looking forward to the following books now that we have some more information about the conflict and the key players who are going against Olympus.

Katee Robert really cannot stop winning with this sizzling series. As searingly hot as it’s predecessors, with the building intrigue beginning to (pardon the joke,) climax, Midnight Ruin is a delicious gem of a book. Frankly seeing this ARC available for download drop kicked me through the brick wall of an 8 week reading slump, and I read it with an urgency I’ve been unable to muster, even for my most anticipated releases, in months. And oh it paid off, it delivered, it came through. In a period where every page is a slog of effort Robert’s bracingly fast pace was exactly what I needed, generating an eagerness to turn the page. I adored this latest set of characters as well - fierce Eurydice out from under the thumbs of her controlling elder sisters, stoicism-hiding-deep-wells-of-emotion Charon, and reformed-reduced-to-begging-for-scraps Orpheus. This book is fucking delicious, first and foremost on its own merit, but also by being exactly what my brain didn’t know it was craving.