Name: Us in Ruins
Rating: 3.5 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9780063284685

Rachel Moore

Us in Ruins

Margot is on the quest to uncover and reassemble an ancient—and cursed—vase, with the help of a boy who went missing in 1932, because it's the only way to put back together her broken heart in this standa-lone adventure rom-com, perfect for fans of What the River Knows and The Lost City. The mythical Vase of Venus Aurelia hasn’t been seen since 1932, but Margot Rhodes is determined to change that. Drawn by the vase’s supposed magical properties, Margot embarks on her school’s archaeological trip to Pompeii. Sure, it’s her first time holding a shovel, but she’s got something no one else does: lost teenage explorer Van Keane’s journal. Poring over the poetic entries that serve as a map to the vase’s missing shards, Margot finds herself falling in love with the boy who wrote it a century ago. She’s shocked when her search leads her to a statue that looks exactly like Van, and then the statue comes to life. Catapulted into the present, Van is nothing like the wordsmith Margot imagined. He’s all sharp edges, intent on retrieving the relic for all the wrong reasons. But it takes two to survive Venus’s death-defying challenges, and, together, Margot and Van must excavate the treasure—and their buried pasts—before their story ends in ruins. With a blend of humor, magic, and love, Rachel Moore crafts another stand-alone adventure rom-com full of double- and triple-crosses, hilarious shenanigans, and frustration-fueled banter, where the best treasure is true love.

I had been waiting to read this book with my book club cause I was so excited cause the plot intrigued me and the cover is gorgeous JUST to have the FMC be the most insufferable person. At first I liked that she was emotional, I didn’t like all the swiftie references and I had to suspend disbelief that she is a high school student that got into a highly prestigious archeology group using a SELF INSERT FANFIC- but the fact that the author completely 180ed her characteristics after meeting Van to this badmouthing “badass” who doesn’t cry in front of the MMC just pushed me over the edge- and I liked Van but Margot is probably the worst FMC I’ve ever read.

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