Review: Reviewed for Cocktails and Books
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 29, 2014
I would strongly argue that Ruined isn’t a Fifty Shades of Grey. There are similarities but the brutal physicality is lacking from this book.  It is on the tamer side.  Ethan Frost is the owner of a large corporate company and Chloe is still a college student who is interning at said company. They both have pasts that are hiding.Chloe Girard is looking to make her way in the world. She wants desperately to move on from her past and to help move forward, she is interning (for law) at a prestigious and highly competitive company, owned by Ethan Frost.  Ethan Frost is a self made millionaire who started the company from the ground up. He’s gorgeous, smart, funny and super charming. The chemistry ignites from the very first meeting of these two and never lets up.I really enjoyed the playful banter between Ethan and Chloe. The argument over that blender in the food court was highly amusing!  It seems like such a petty thing to be arguing over, and yet it holds so much significance for both characters. Neither will budge on the make up of what makes a good smoothie and the back and forth over gifted blender through the first part of the book makes you chuckle out loud.There is a cliffhanger at the end leaving it open for more books.  In the epilogue, Ethan’s secret is revealed (it was predictable), but the aftermath of the reveal isn’t known. The story just ended abruptly, which makes me want to read the next book. Plus I’d love to see more of Chloe and Ethan overall.  I felt as though there relationship was a bit rushed and definitely what was revealed at the end will put a damper on their relationship in the next book and make for plenty of romantic angst.[...]