Review: I wanted to like Ruined, I really did, but there was just something that was just a TAD bit off for me.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
3 Ethan Frost StarsI wanted to like Ruined, I really did, but there was just something that was just a TAD bit off for me.Simple Summary - > Intern gets sassy with a co-worker, only that she doesn’t know it’s Ethan, the owner of the very company she’s working for. He finds her attractive and thus pursues her.The summary is pretty standard and cute. I liked how sassy Chloe was originally to Ethan. I love it when the Heroine pushes the Hero away, as the Hero actively pursues Ethan. Ethan is charming, sweet and very generous.That’s about sums what I enjoyed. Here is what I had issues with.I had issues with the writing style.OH my god, could there be any more descriptive writing!I was reading, pages and pages and PAGES of just descriptive writing. I was to the point where I wanted to scream and say… “CHLOE I DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK!!!!!”. Just give me dialogue please! I skimmed.I had issues with Chloe.She’s is the most wish-washy Heroine EVER. She pushes Ethan away because she can’t date the boss, which I get and kind of like, but then she gets kind of upsets when he doesn’t really respond to her. WHAT?! He gives you gifts and you return it, not just once but two times? I get the first time you did it, it’s pretty funny, but the second time? It didn’t make sense.I had issues with the flow and execution.The progression of the story is VERY SLOW. The steam is minimal and when you finally get to it, I was so frustrated with the relationship I just couldn’t enjoy it as much as I originally did in the beginning. There were many times I wanted to put a DNF, but I wanted to see it through.You get to the climatic ending and I was just kind of questioning it all. It was really rushed and kind of came out of nowhere. I was scratching my head and then the climatic ending lead to the very obvious cliffy. There’s an OPEN CLIFFY and you are like. Oh man.I will continue because of the cliffy, but if book 2, pulls the same issues, it may be a DNF for me.Some things I look forward to in book 2, I HOPE Chloe doesn’t act stupid as she did in Ruined and actually tries to be sensible. I want it to be a Ethan and Chloe verse the issue kind of read, not Chloe running away like a chicken with her head cut off and Ethan chases her for no reason because honestly what does Chloe bring to the table?Give me more steam, and some kinky steam too.Edit and stop of the internal dialogue, I don’t care what you are thinking, just talk it out.Overall, a very decent attempt on Wolff’s part.This review was written by Jacqueline's Reads