Ruined Hopes is a great addition to an amazing series. I have fallen in love with the Rixon Raiders and their cast of friends. Each book adds more to the series and we get to know more about a specific couple. This is Ashleigh and Ezra’s story. It was full of emotions, angst and a slow burn relationship. Both characters have issues to overcome and work through. This made things hard for them and hard to overcome the distance it created. I loved the push and pull between them. This made the ending all that more special. I cannot wait for the next book in this series.

After the tragic events that happened one night with Ashleigh and Ezra it has left a huge hole in what they had. Ashleigh has no memory of the last 10 months so not only is she healing from wounds on the outside her head is a mess and she feels as if she missing out on so much as her friends move forward with their lives. With her family and friends treating her likes she’s fragile ready to break she plasters on a fake smile saying she is fine but she’s struggling. Ezra has so much on his shoulders from a tragic past to the accident he blames himself and the one person he once counted on to be by his side he now has to push her away. He thinks he is doing this for her own good and that he would only drag her down but he doesn’t see the love she has carried for so long for him. Ashleigh tries to turn to the one person who she always would but he keeps putting her at a distance and saying things to make her hate him. Every time Ezra would be cruel to her I could feel her pain slice my skin as it did hers and it was so painful to see these two who deserve happiness fall apart. This book was so emotional and full of angst but beautifully done. The feelings came off the pages making me feel it all from anger to pain to love and when secrets start to come out you wonder what will happen to them if they choose each other or to walk away from it all. It took me on an rollercoaster of emotions that I didn’t want to end especially seeing the pain Ezra endured in his past but when he finally comes around it’s a beautiful thing to witness.

I love this books it was something so different I never thought Rut Ezra was going to be a Raider I was shocked!