Thank you Jacqueline White for my darkest yet most emotionally enlightening and devastating ARC read of the year 🖤😭 I am forever changed, and I have no idea how I will survive the wait for the next book...

I have been trying to put into words how this book made me feel, because reviewing the content simply won’t do justice to the storm of emotions I am still drowning in.

Never has a book felt more aptly named. It holds a singular promise that will be viciously & relentlessly delivered to you through every single page. And by the time you read the last words of this story, not a single soul will be left intact. Not the victims or the villains, and most of all, not your own.

Souls In Ruin is not your typical dark romantasy. It is not a sad tale with a happy ending. It is not a forbidden romance turned epic love story. It is the ultimate story of blinding rage used for revenge and the unyielding suffocating need for possession & control.

It is the embodiment of pain & suffering and the perverse desire to be seen & wanted & loved amidst it all. It is the melding of need & hatred & longing in the eye of the most unbearable agony.

It is trauma personified It is your deepest darkest desires & sickest most depraved hurt laid bare through ink on paper. It is the story of bodies & hearts & souls bending & breaking & reforging on an endless tormenting cycle.

It is the tearing down of flesh & mind, the icy drowning of hopes, the sickening annihilation of every single thing that makes the self.

It is a cruel ode to the broken & the lost. Reminding us in the most harrowing ways that there is beauty in our despair, there is strength in our misery, there is light in our darkness, however fractured it might be. However fractured *we *might be...

It is a story where no one wins and everyone suffers.

If you have read all this and still think you might find solace in it, welcome to the deepest depths of hell. I doubt your soul survives. But I will be here to hold you on the other side, amongst the shadows & whispers of despair.