{"id":34748,"date":"2025-07-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34748"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:38:39","slug":"review-dark-fae-ruthless-boys-of-the-zodiac-book-1-by-caroline-peckham-and-susanne-valenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34748","title":{"rendered":"#Review – Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac Book 1) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A complete dark, fantasy romance series <\/strong>from Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti<\/em><\/strong>

What do a heartless Dragon Shifter, a cold-blooded Basilisk, an arrogant Lion Shifter and a brooding, tattooed Harpy have in common\u2026?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elise Callisto. Vampire. Angel of vengeance.<\/strong> And a girl on a mission to destroy one of them for murdering my brother. I just don\u2019t know which one did it yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I interrogated\/accidentally killed a Werewolf<\/strong> who was high on a new and dangerous drug called Killblaze, his final words painted a dark reality for me. The King of Aurora Academy killed my brother.<\/strong> The trouble is, there\u2019s four kings at the academy and each of them have motive and bloodthirsty natures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aurora Academy<\/strong> isn\u2019t a place for the faint of heart. To put it lightly, my town is the cesspit of Solaria where the most cutthroat Fae in the kingdom<\/strong> reside. The school itself is divided by the two gangs <\/strong>who run this city. The Lunar Brotherhood and the Oscura Clan. And guess what? Two of the kings run the gangs at the academy, their hatred for each other so fierce I hear a day doesn\u2019t go by without blood being spilled in the halls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might be a petite, lilac-haired girl who looks like I couldn\u2019t hurt a fly, but they haven\u2019t been introduced to my fangs yet. And they don\u2019t know why I\u2019m really here. Or that I\u2019ll do whatever it takes to bring down the Fae who took my flesh and blood from me.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t believe in fate, but I do know this\u2026 the King who killed my brother is a dead man walking.<\/strong> And I\u2019m prepared to sacrifice my heart, body and soul to ensure I get my revenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a gritty, college age, steamy series set in a world where Fae fight to take whatever they want. The heroin will end up with multiple love interests so you never have to pick a favourite alphahole. You can expect dark and hot romance, and a twisted murder mystery which will leave your head spinning and your heart racing. \u2013 this series is set in the same world as Zodiac Academy but is its own story and can be read independently.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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I can’t begin to tell you when I was this obsessed with a series. I started reading the Zodiac Academy and ended up finding a reading order online. It’s a giant world, so I wanted to make sure I was reading all of it. If that makes sense at all. So there are three series within this world and they intertwine in a way. I read the first 3 books along with 2 novellas for ZA and then started Ruthless Boys because you see these characters in ZA. Which makes sense, since we already see Gabriel in ZA. And let me tell you, I was NOT expecting him to be the way he was in Ruthless Boys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Ruthless Boys takes place 5 years before Zodiac Academy does and it’s at a different school. We meet Elise who is trying to find her brother’s killer. She then meets the four kings of the school. And of course, two of the Kings are part of rival gangs where they will one day be the leaders. While they’re not like our favourite boys from ZA, they are similar. But I think Ryder is the scariest. Gabriel can be mean but things happen between he and Elise that makes me question on who she actually ends up with. I can’t tell you how hard it is not to read spoilers. These books have been out for a while but now that I’m reading, it’s like they’re popping up everywhere and the universe is wanting me to get spoiled.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book is the first of the series, so obviously we’re learning about each character. There’s not a lot of world building like ZA has but this one does have a darker feel to it. But in ZA I find that the guys are meaner. I don’t know. I love them both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can’t wait to get deeper into this series to find out what actually happened to Elise’s brother. I have theories but I’m probably wrong. I usually am anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A complete dark, fantasy romance series from Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti What do a heartless Dragon Shifter, a cold-blooded Basilisk, an arrogant Lion Shifter and a brooding, tattooed Harpy have in common\u2026? Me. Elise Callisto. Vampire. Angel of vengeance. And a girl on a mission to destroy one … Continue reading #Review – Dark Fae (Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac Book 1) by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1210,12,552,532,71,1507,16,1812,1752],"tags":[1794,1795],"class_list":["post-34748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bully","category-dark-romance","category-dragons","category-fantasy","category-fantasy-romance","category-kindle-unlimited","category-part-of-a-series","category-snakes","category-werewolf","tag-caroline-peckham","tag-susanne-valenti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-92s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34771,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34748\/revisions\/34771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}