Blog Tour: Ruthless Rival by LJ Shen

Once you start Ruthless Rival you are not going to be able to put it down. Christian is a guy who has grown up with a mom who is just horrible. I don’t think the poor guy had any warm moments with his mom his entire life. When he was you his mother was the housekeeper for the Roth family. The very Elite Roth family. She would take a subway into Manhattan and bring Christian to work with her. You’d think that would be because she really cared about him and couldn’t stand the thought of him being away from her, but you’d be wrong. She just is not a great mother at all, y’all. He has his instruction to never touch anything of the Roth’s, given five dollars a day and basically send him on his way to do whatever. My heart really broke for Nikolai. But he’s not not up to good things. He learns peoples lives and know who he can steal from and when, who will feed him and where he can take a nap. When he first meets Arya Roth he is doing just that, napping. From his place in the cemetery that he likes to take naps in he sees Arya one day talking to her dead brother’s headstone. These are two people who never really should have been friends but it doesn’t take long for that friendship to form and turn in to something more. However, one kiss when Arya dared him to do it is all it takes to turn his life upside down and gets him sent by Arya’s father to a school far far away. Arya is never going to forgive her father for this either. Fast forward to years later and we see Nicolai now Christian Miller as a powerful hot shot attorney who is one the fast track to becoming partner. Things though just aren’t happening fast enough and all the zeros in the world in his bank account do not matter anymore. But when a client comes to him he goes out of his negotiations and settlement route and sees this as the break he has been looking for that will prove his worth with the first and get him the revenge he has been waiting to get for many years now. This book is so good. I couldn’t put it down. I liked these characters and I loved that Arya didn’t know who Christian was and that he was from her past. I don’t want to go in to all the things I loved about this book because there are a lot and some of those would be spoilers. You just need to get it and read and enjoy the ride. I know that I sure did.