A review by eurydiceh
Ruined by S.K. Lessly

2.0

Maxine Shaw met the man of her dreams in Mason West, but he left her heartbroken. Now, when her life is threatened, he dives back in to save her. But will Maxine give Mason another chance?

Because I have read book 2 before book 1, I can tell you that this series definitely gets better. Mistakes abound, but nothing too jarring. I forgot what it’s called when an author does a certain random thing in every book, but S K Lessly does it and I don’t think it was necessary.

Mason was weirdly rough, but I guess we’ll have to blame that on the military. Maxine, however, had too much shit happen to her, and I wonder why Lessly felt that extra trauma was necessary. It’s ok to have regular heroines with regular lives sometimes.

Still, I read the book and I didn’t hate it. So that counts for something. Two stars though, because three seems too generous.