This book focuses on Nadya as she works to fix her mistakes and once again become a dutiful cleric, but the discovery of her magic has taken her too far from her path and she can no longer be trusted by the faithful. Anyone who gets squeamish about blood, injuries, or body parts being outside of the body probably has not made it to this point in the series. There’s some gruesome violence, involving both hearts and eyes, and lots of meddling from monstrous gods. There are rivers of blood, altars of blood, eyes full of blood… just blood everywhere. Wicked Saints is bloody and dark and magical, but Ruthless Gods takes that to a whole new level. But as they face their past mistakes, and make plenty of new ones, they have to decide if what they fight for is worth the risk, and worth their lives.

The girl, the prince, and the monster journey through an ancient forest and face old evils that never should have awoken. In order to free his mind he needs Malachiasz, whose obsession with power has pushed his body past mortality and into something dark and lethal. But Serefin’s throne is hanging by a thread, as is his sanity as his mind becomes cluttered with the voices of gods long since banished. She, Serefin, Parijahan, and Rashid track down Malachiasz so they can make a long journey across countries and finish what they started. She’ll do anything to reclaim her holy title and restore her gods’ place in the world, but her gods leave her with more questions than answers and she’s beginning to suspect that her power is more terrifying than anything of this world. Ever since she killed the Tranavian king, and discovered the depth of her own magic, her gods have not whispered to her.

“What if the gods you worship aren’t gods at all?” Moderate sexuality: Detailed kissing scenes and brief undressing, same sex relationship. Moderate language: Consistent swearing, including a few F bombs. Graphic violence: Battle scenes involving death and explosions, physical and mental attacks, possession, cannibalism, details of bodily self-harm and torture, allusions to human sacrifice. Diversity, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Romance, Royalty, War

Ruthless gods