Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert
Dark Olympus #6
Contemporary Retelling
January 16, 2023- Sourcebooks
ARC

Review by Angela

This series has been hit or miss for me, but I keep powering through because I really want to know how the series plot arc concludes. This is a triad romance featuring Eurydice Dimitriou, Charon Ariti, and Orpheus Makos. If you are all caught up on the series, then you already know the history between the three–but most especially between Eurydice and Orpheus. Charon makes his entrance into Eurydice’s life later on when Hades appoints him her protector.

As with any Katee Robert romance, this is a very, very, very dirty book. There isn’t a whole lot of build up to the relationship between the three, which didn’t really bother me since there was development in previous installments. Think instalust, with instalove shortly behind. What I will say is that I expected groveling on the part of Orpheus, because of course any romance reader would after the way he behaved in the past and the hurt Eurydice suffered by his actions, but I was kind of taken aback by the puppy play. I mean, it’s for a short amount of time in the beginning of the threesome, but… not my kink.

This felt like a bridge book, with a whole lot of sex and relationship filler thrown in while advancing the overall series plot. Readers do learn the identity of Minos’s benefactor and why the barrier is failing. Hades finally shuts down the lower city in order to protect his people. Hera makes an appearance, and there are also some developments in Ariadne and the Minotaur’s relationship. Which is nice since their book is up next.

I will definitely be reading the next book in the series. I simply have to find out how they fix the barrier, and I really can’t wait to get to Hera and Zeus’s story.

Final grade-C