Ruthless

A Dark, Suspenseful Second Chance Romance (Villains & Vixens, Book 2)

De: Cassandra Featherstone

Narrado por: Michelle Price, Matthew Winchester

Fire will cleanse your soul.

I thought I was a phoenix who rose from the ashes of my past free of the pain and betrayal, but I was wrong.

Jinx, Dwyn, Coda, Raz, and Mo were nothing more than bad memories until they magically reappeared in my perfectly organized world as smoking hot adults. By the time I realized they were the boys I loved as a teen, it was too late.

For the second time, an explosion changed the course of my life in the blink of an eye. I don’t know if The Five are dead, captured, or hiding.

What I do know is the shadowy client intent on conquering the criminal underworld by killing off competition will pay for daring to take what is mine.

He may believe he’s won by using me to eliminate The Five, but there’s a twist he couldn’t plan for…The Guillotine is no longer working alone.

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A bit slow moving

The story is a a bit slow moving on the romance and relationship part and this is def not a stand alone. It Picks up several months after the last ends. It's filled with action and mystery and lots of twists and turns you get some answers but more and more questions. We are left again with a cliffhanger and I can't wait to see what happens next. Narration is done well.

Reverse harem, female assassin

Definitely read the first book before this one. Had a hard time following the story without reading the first book. It's a reverse harem, female assassin, criminal underworld story line.

Dark Suspenseful Why Choose Romance

Ruthless by Cassandra Featherstone is a dark suspenseful why choose romance that I listened to on audio narrated by Matthew Winchester and Michelle Price. This is the second book in the Villains and Vixens series.

I was hooked from the first chapter and couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next. I loved that we got Remy, Coda, Dwyn, Jinx, and Mo's points of views throughout the book. It really brought the story to life.

The book ended on an amazing cliffhanger that left me begging for more. I can't wait for the next book in the series Wicked to be announced.

Matthew and Michelle did an amazing job on the narration. They both really know how to bring a story to life. I look forward to listening to more of their work in the future.

I would recommend this book if you you're looking for a dark romance, contemporary romance, why choose romance, second chance romance or romantic suspense.


The Flock Team

ruthless

Ruthless was the second book in this series. This book gives alot of suspense and action. I very much enjoyed all the characters pov's. The narrators did an amazing job.

4.5 ☆ Overall

This is the second book I've read/listened to by Cassandra Featherstone. It continues to have the feel of the TV show Alias. This book gives us more suspense and action. I enjoyed getting multiple characters point of view! I look forward to getting more from the next audiobook.

Michelle Price and Matthew Winchester are wonderful narrators. Matthew was new for this audiobook and I enjoyed his performancemuch better. Michelle did wonderful as usual. This audiobook ran like a movie in my head.

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Not a lot of progression unfortunately

I was really excited for book 2 in this series and I still think the series has potential I just felt like this one didn't move along/had a lot of repetitiveness so it made for a not as exciting sequel. Also with how the book was formatted and all the time jumps, it made listening difficult because things were added to help the flow/bridge the gap.

I was glad to see things finally move along by the end of the book and Remy get time with one of the guys she didn't hook up with in book 1 again. I did like the dynamic between her and Lys, and how she would put her in her place and Remy has to understand what it means to have a friend haha. I also loved some of the guys who seem sorta crazy or have hard exteriors and get more of their POVs and see how much of a cinnamon roll they are haha and how much they love Remy and are excited/determined to have more time with her again now that they found her. I am intrigued to the character(s) we didn't hear from all book. Like what happened there?!? I know the author hasn't written the next book but I feel like she will need at least 2 more to get them back together, have their dynamics improved, and then go after the person who keeps trying to kill them.

Narration was good, I liked it like I did last time. We get more side characters and trying to navigate those normally would be hard but the narration performances didn't lack at all. I thought she did a particular good job with the annoying young daughter charge she was supposed to be protecting and making her personality/persona come easily to life.

Overall I think the author needed to make this book a little longer to help balance out a lot of the exposition, internal monologue, and the non-action scenes. There were chapters where pretty much nothing happened and we didn't get details to help move the plot/help answer questions. Just felt like we could have cut some and added more impactful chapters and this would have been a 4 or a 5 stars. Book 1 was really good so this did feel like a letdown a little.

I am going to still stick with the series, I am 100% invested and want to see the antics the groups into and how they solve their problems and reconnect. The sexy times in book 1 were fab and hope we get more of that in book 3 since book 2 was mostly them apart so not a lot of those times happening. AND would love to see more MM btw, hopefully we get more of that in future books.

🎧 Audiobook Obsession Reviewer - Flock Team 🎧

this performance was so good

The audiobook was amazing. The voice actors were so good at painting the scene. I read the first book and really liked it but now that I listened to Ruthless, I wish I had bought the audiobook of Bloodthirsty instead. The storyline was very addictive. I did not want to pause it to do all the other things I needed to do.

Part 2

Remy

3.5*

The narrators did a good job. I was impressed when spoke in the foreign language.

This is the second part of this series, need to read the first and it does end in a cliffhanger. I liked the continuation to this story as not only is Remy looking for who is trying to take her out but she is looking for the five guys she trained with when she was young before she disappeared. It was a bit confusing and I know I will be listening to this again when the next part goes live. Remy has found help and maybe a friendship brewing as she found and makes it her mission to rescue one of her boys. Again not what I was expecting and is told mostly from Remy's POV.

Edge of your seat

With a nickname like “The Guillotine”…I don’t think I’d ever wanna mess with Remy. She is one bad *** woman!! & to let yourself be tortured just to see how long you can last…crazy. I love this series so much, it’s very entertaining and keeps your attention while you anticipate Remy’s next move — and it’s never what you expect!