The Elemental Ruins

Circle the Square, Book 2

De: Sam Burns

Narrado por: Greg Boudreaux

This blurb contains spoilers for book one, so proceed with caution!

What do you do the day after the world doesn’t end?

If you’re River Keyes (yeah, me), you try to figure out how you’re going to live without the internet. Because we might have kept two worlds from being destroyed, but now I’m trapped in a place with no electricity, no takeout, and no phoning home.

Worse, it’s a world where my absent father is not just present, but in power, and even more of a jerk than I remember.

At least if I’ve got to be trapped away from home, there’s Lasya Zarani, hot elven general and best eye-candy ever. Once he decides whether he wants to cut me to ribbons or take me to bed, things might get interesting.

But that’s only if my father doesn’t kill one or both of us first.

The Elemental Ruins is the second of two books featuring travel between two very different worlds, a snarky criminal trapped far from home, the angry elven general he’s lusting after, his terrible father, and a few surprises along the way. It concludes the story begun in The Elemental Keyes with happily ever afters all around.

©2023 Sam Burns (P)2023 Sam Burns

Loved it!

The characters are wonderful. I’m so glad there was a sequel. The narration was fantastic!

Amazing!

loved it the ending was well written had just the right amount of ✨️spice✨️ great story 10/10

amazing performance

you just can't find a better voice actor than Greg Boudreaux. he truly brings the story and each of the characters to life

Great story!

Sam Burns is an amazing storyteller. I have loved all the books! More please! Thanks!

Rough man turned lover

Loved the happy ending, River falls in love with an unexpecting lover. He also has to save all of Hullana from his father's reign

Good

I like Sam Burns as an author & I found this to be a novel story with good romance and action / adventure. But I wish things were a little different. I wish there was more to the story. It was pretty novel/ unique, I hadn’t heard one like it and was interested to hear more about their world and the things going on there. Like the changes that occurred after. I really liked the young king and was interested in him having a happily ever after as well. I want him to have friends and not be alone. To be clear I am really grateful that the story was shorter rather than being filled with angst-y bs. I hate that in books and this doesn’t have very much of that which is great. I just like hearing about how everything has worked out well. It’s one of my favorite parts and I wish there had been more detail. Over all great job, good story, thanks for being an author! 😊

Great story continued

Book one was great and book two picks up right where it left off. Sam Burns wrote a very entertaining story with a lot of detail and depth. the plot is so good. Greg Boudreaux is the only narrator that could do justice to this story. he definitely gave personality and life to each of the characters. Book two does not standalone, you must read/listen to book one first. I definitely 100% recommend these two books. very entertaining.

Story was ok but narration was PERFECT

I agree with the narration saving this book.
The story was good but kinda slow. Greg makes it excellent

Awesome

Great end to the series, it ended perfectly and wouldn’t mind another story sooner than later

Not as good as the first book

I really enjoyed the first book and was looking forward to this one because both River and Lasya seemed like great characters that could be really fun together. Tbh the fact that Lasya is such a goody goody guy was a bit of a let down.

My biggest beef with this book might be the weird inclusion of Russian stuff into the fantasy world. It seems totally random that elf demons on a different world would be cooking Russian meals and stuff and calling them by Russian names.

Also the reveal at the end of all those characters being related secretly and so on was a bit far fetched.