Tuesday Reviews: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert

 

*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon.*

Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she's finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family…and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all?

Charon Ariti has been Hades's right-hand man for years. He's given everything to the lower city, but now he's ready to take something for himself. He's only too happy to give Eurydice a special kind of education…but is her heart really free enough to be claimed?

Orpheus Makos will do whatever it takes to make things right. Once the golden boy of the upper city, he's now a shadow of his former self. He'll do anything to get Eurydice back…even if it means she's not coming into his arms alone. Three hearts. Three futures. Countless ways to get it wrong.

But with enemies slipping through Olympus's faltering barrier to lay siege on the lower city, a trio of broken hearts will be the least of these would-be lovers' worries…

Eurydice is honestly one of the side characters that I have been most interested in their story.  The sheltered little sister of Persephone. The one who she and Hades fiercely protects after what happened with Orpheus (via Zeus) in the first book.  Now that it's finally here, I can say that it truly lived up to the hype. 

Eurydice's story with  Charon, Hades's right-hand man and Orpheus is one that I wasn't expecting. Charon, her fierce protector, has been in love with her since he was assigned by Hades to guard her, but considering how her last relationship with Orpheus went... he's kept his thoughts and hands to himself until Eurydice sneaks away to Hades club all on her own.  When Charon catches her... the sparks and the romance fly.  Add in her feelings for her ex.. who happens to be bi, just like Charon, and you have the spark that ignites a fiery passion I didn't expect. 


Midnight Ruin is MMF, and this relationship style is fast becoming one of my favorites. Why choose between the two men in her life when she can have them both.  It's the best of both worlds really. 

Now to wait until August for the next one.