A review by paulataua
The Ruin Season by Kristopher Triana

3.0

Jake lives alone in the rural south. He breaks horses and trains dogs. He is bipolar, but seems to have it under control. Two women in his life are going to make that difficult for him. This is my fourth Triana novel. All of them are totally different and the only consistency is the excellent writing. This one, however, really didn’t grab me at all. I really couldn’t get behind the Jake character, and less so behind the two women in the story, and so the novel just dragged for me. I contemplated giving up on several occasions, but just about managed to reach the end. I oscillated between two and three stars finally giving it the benefit of my doubt.