Review: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert

Posted April 29, 2024 by Stephanie in 5 Stars, Dark Romance, Review / 5 Comments

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…

Unexpected five star reads are my favorite and always welcome but still I really had not expected Midnight Ruin to be one of them when I first started reading the book. The other books in the series have all been between three and five stars so I never know what a new one is gonna bring. Maybe also because I knew the story had puppy play kink in it and I had never read a book featuring it until this one so I wasn’t sure I was gonna like this aspect but I ended up liking it a lot actually. At this point Katee Robert can write any kink in a book and I will like it.

This book features Eurydice Dimitriou, Charon Ariti and Orpheus Makos. Eurydice is the younger Dimitrious sister (the others being Callisto, Persephone and Psyche). After Eurydice’s heart got broken by Orpheus, she hasn’t been sure where to belong. The upper or lower city? Her feelings for Charon, Hades’s right-hand man also aren’t helping since she knows she can’t fully give herself to him as long as she hasn’t had closure with Orpheus. Charon has had feelings for Eurydice for months but knows that Orpheus is still in her heart and Charon knows that they need to come face-to-face first and even maybe in bed with both himself and Eurydice. Meanwhile Orpheus isn’t quite the golden boy that he once was. His brother Apollo has cut him off, Eurydice doesn’t want anything to do with him, until Charon approaches him and invites him down to the lower city to work it out with her.

The romance in Midnight Ruin was top-notch and extremly sensual and hot. I loved it so so so so much. Eurydice/Charon/Orpheus may be my favorite romance of them all so far (I feel like I say this a lot with this series but that’s how I’m feeling now). There was a lot of groverling when it came to Orpheus towards Eurydice and I loved every single bit of it. And the puppy play! I very much enjoyed that aspect of their roleplaying. I also really liked that Eurydice discovered she’s more of a switch instead of just a sub. Love that for her. I loved all three characters but Charon has my heart. He’s my everything now in this series. He was just perfect for both Eurydice and Orpheus, which was a surprise to all of them but they sure went along with it.

The romance was the main plot of this book, as well as with the other books in the series. But the micro plot went also steam ahead in this one. We got some new twists that honestly left me shocked and I didn’t think this series could shock me anymore but Katee Robert certainly went for it. We also got a spicy sneak peek of the next book which will feature Ariadne and Asterion a.k.a. the Minotaur, which will have the forbidden love trope. Of course I cannot wait to read it. I have very high expectation of that one!

About the author:

Katee Robert is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Entertainment Weekly calls her writing “unspeakably hot.” Her books have sold over a million copies. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, children, a cat who thinks he’s a dog, and two Great Danes who think they’re lap dogs.

Katee is represented by Laura Bradford at Bradford Literary Agency.

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