Brutal Rival

The Princesses of Ruin, Book 1

De: Ember Holt

Narrado por: Devon Wilder, Fred Fox

He wants his bloodthirsty rival for a wife.

She only wants the queen's head on a pike.

Scarlett Bloodletter narrowly escaped her own assassination at the tender age of fourteen. Why had her mother, the queen, tried to kill her? Beats Scarlett, but she assumed it was because she was a nomaj. Without a drop of magic in Scarlett’s blood, she was useless to the throne. Reduced to all kinds of deplorable things to survive the harsh streets of the kingdom’s poverty-stricken “Underbelly,” Scarlett has grown into a feared criminal with two things on her mind: kill the queen and liberate her sisters, the only people she still has a heart for…until Zane.

Zane, the Spider Lord, is a fearsome gang leader of the Underbelly known for decapitating his victims and poisoning his rivals. There’s only one thing he more fiercely protects than his territory: his Nomaj Princess of Prayers, Scarlett. He’ll do anything to keep her off her knees and will kill anyone who looks at her twice.

After one passionate night leads Zane to discover Scarlett’s dark secret, he’s helpless to resist her cause. After all, what’s more exciting than plotting to kill a queen?

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Amazing Narration

I loved the story line and how fearce the MFC is, she is taking names and handing out punishments. the MMC is such a great counter balance. they really go well together and I love how you can feel the chemistry between the characters. There is spice, there is violence and there love. What is there not to love. Looking forward for the next book in the series.

Fun read!

I personally found the dark humor underlining throughout the book and found it morbidly amusing. The main female character has that sassy and bad assy side of her as well!

Loved the passion!

I started this series by reading book 2 so it was nice to finally be able to read the first one to see where it all came from. I enjoyed it a lot. I was able to listen to the audiobook of it and I thought the narrators did a great job. Definitely recommend this series.

awesome narrators

was a nice introduction to the characters and an interesting story. I can't wait for the next one to see how things play out