Review: Midnight Ruin by Katee Robert

Another venture into the world of Olympians and the drama that intertwines lovers together.

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Dates Read: 24/08/25 to 03/09/25

Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Word to describe: Power

Genre: Romantic Fiction

Welcome once again to the underworld, or the lower part of the city whichever you prefer, where the young Eurydice hides with her chaperone Charon and yearns for his touch. But, being the protected younger sister of Persephone and Hades, Charon knows that Eurydice's body is off limits no matter how much he dreams of her lips. Living in sexual tension is never so hard until Eurydice's asshat of an ex-boyfriend, Orpheus forces his way into the lower city to beg for Eurydice's forgiveness after he realised he will never have meaning in life again without his muse.

Once again, Katee Roberts is exploring relationships of multiples and this time she does not hold back bringing kink into the relationship. Charon, Eurydice, and Orpheus explore power dynamics as Orpheus is made to prove his worth and perform for both Eurydice and Charon in his quest for her forgiveness. Scenes that have Orpheus crawling on the floor and turned into sexual servitude allow the characters to develop a new kind of love and admiration for each other, whilst also giving Charon and Eurydice the push to finally break that tension.

This was not one of my favourite books in the series so far. At this point, I had grown tired of the multiples and would have loved a second chance romance without the addition of Charon. The eventual admission of love for each other felt forced and out of place, almost as if Katee Robert's had forgotten the original reason these characters had been paired together.

My main admiration for this book falls in the expansion of Eurydice's character from naïve and scarred younger sister of Persephone into her own woman. I enjoyed seeing her growth especially in confidence and sexuality as the book progressed. It almost mirrored Persephone coming into her own body in the first book that brought me into this fantastic series.

Overall, Midnight Ruin was just an okay tier of book within this series it was fluff filler to make way for the gripping final few books in the series and the inevitable explosion arc of the fall of Olympus that we will see very soon. With this one read it is on to the next in the series.