Name: Dukes of Ruin
Rating: 4.5 (9 reviews)

Angel Lawson

Dukes of Ruin

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I had very high expectations after reading the Lords, and Angel and Sam did not disappoint! This book starts out BRUTAL. Lavinia has been dealt an extremely crappy hand in life. She has been treated as nothing more than a bargaining chip her entire life, and her intro to the Dukes is no different. She's such a fighter, but also you see her internal struggle in seeing herself that way.

Similarly to the Lords, it took me at least halfway through the book to feel like I might not always hate these men. Nick, Sy and Remy all have their own set of unique issues, and Lavinia is both an outlet for those issues as well as eventually being a balm to them. 

This book ends with a lot of open questions and I'm excited to see where this is going. Another home run in the Forsyth series!

samantha youngclaus

i need my feminist card revoked immediately omfg THE FIRST CHAPTER????

Kristen Gillis

“To the Victor goes the Spoils”

They did it again. The Lords Series is one of my absolute favorites and the Dukes is no different. It’s sucks you in and doesn’t let you go until it’s over, and boy is this book THICK 😍

Lavinia is definitely not a weak women. She’s snarky and full of fire. She will not just sit there and let the Dukes (mostly Nick) dictate her, oh no, she’s going to get something out of it too. 

Nick absolutely deserves to have Sy kick him around for what he did. Sy baby 😍🥵 he is my favorite Duke, the man just needs a real women and I’m pretty sure he’s found one. Remy, poor Remy, he’s just so confused and it’s not is fault.

Rotha

Samantha Rue

The crowns of Forsyth Royalty aren’t built with jewels. They’re forged in blood and sacrifice.

They say a parent should never pick favorites, but my d*ck of a father, Lionel Lucia, is no Ward Cleaver. He's a Count—a King of Forsyth—and all he ever wanted was a daughter to marry off and a son to secure his legacy. My sister's marriage to the leader of the Counts would keep him in control of his house. If he'd had a son, things would have been perfect.

Instead, he got me.

Too wild. Too rash. Too rebellious. I'm half as pretty as my sister, and twice as stubborn. I grew up under the brutal force of our father's fist, but it didn't break me. If anything, it just made me more determined to strike back. And I would have, too.

If my sister hadn't disappeared.


I’ve spent the last year at the mercy of the Kings, caged and tormented. But the three thugs who arrive in the night, masked and vicious, decide to take me for their own.

There's the Maniac, with his razor-sharp smile and frantic eyes, thrashing around me in a hurricane of hard touches and whispered words. By the time Remy's done marking me, I'm not sure there'll be anything left to call my own.

The Lurker, with his malevolent stare and bitter tongue, hates me the most. It's easier with him, knowing that he could never want me. If being the object of Sy's resentment is bad, then being the object of his desire just might be my undoing.

The Creep is the worst of all three. Not because he's meaner or harsher, but because he's neither. Two hundred pounds of inked, imposing muscle, Nick Bruin has been following me since I first became a pawn. Now, he means to make me his.

The Dukes are known for winning with their fists, but transforming Lavinia Lucia from the Kings’ captive to their unwilling Duchess will be their biggest match yet.

The saga continues in book 4 of the contemporary, dark romance, Royals of Forsyth series, where the Duke’s reign will be one of Ruin, Fury and Peril.

Dukes of Ruin

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