Arcus is bae and is the only reason I bothered finishing this novel. 
 I was enjoying this until the second half. I was so looking forward to the arena brawls, but the fights were lame and Ruby sucked ass (view spoiler)[she couldn't win any battles on her own without shadow creep (hide spoiler)]. Ruby was also going on about how handsome Rasmus would be and then started sucking his face. Just NOOOOOOOO. Seriously the relationship between Ruby and Arcus was BIG-FLUFFY-LOVE-HEARTS. Why did the author have to make me dislike MC???? 
 Towards the end of the novel, I ended up not giving a crap about Ruby and the fate of her world. I only care about Arcus and the monks. After reading the sypnosis of book 2... doesn't sound like there is enough Arcus for me. I guess I won't read it. No love triangles for me thnx!!!