A Game of Deceit and Desire

This has to be the most stunning fiction Ruby Roe has released yet! There is a serious level-up here, and I'm now panting and gagging to read her next series.

In this final release for the Girl Games trilogy, the story and characters feel like they're more layered – now this could be because I feel more familiar with them, as they've been side characters in the previous two novels, but this time they just seemed a little ‘more' than before.

Maybe this is because there's a larger cast outside the core circle, which is teasing us by scattering breadcrumbs for future worlds, but it's all so damn interesting!

The world building description is definitely up a notch or three and it's beautiful to read and compare. I thoroughly enjoyed the previous two books but this was Deep.

It also feels like the characters communicate with a greater depth of intention and clarity – even during the sex scenes. And there are Plenty! Sizzling, and multiple.

The stakes are as high as ever – a grand competition, enemies to lovers, planned prison breaks, twists and traitors – but this is all excellently balanced. Description gives way to dialogue, gives way to action, gives way to sex, gives way to description...

The plotting and the pace is superb, and this is not just a fitting ending to the Girl Games series, but a fantastic story in its own right.

I'd be remiss not to mention the previous two books: A Game of Hearts and Heists, and A Game of Romance and Ruin. If you haven't read them, do your sweet literary sapphic-loving hearts a favour and grab them. If you just like a great, fast-paced, competitive romance, in a fantasy world, then A Game of Deceit and Desire is for you.


I recieved an advance copy and this is my honest review.