Ruinous Return, Book 1

By: SerasStreams

Narrated by: Hannah Trusty

The price for saving the world is the right to rule it.

After saving a faraway world, Lyn Rivers was cast back to Earth. Wanting the admiration, prestige, and glory of saving that world, she forced her way back.

But she was forgotten, and someone else claimed credit for her deeds.

Now, with the power of a deity of destruction, she desires nothing more than to claim her place in history. To do that she will conquer dungeons, make alliances, destroy kingdoms, and build an empire.

After all, why ruin the world when you can bend it to your will?

©2025 SerasStreams (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Never cared for spoken spells

overall good story. I never cared for chanting spells. Characters and storyline is strong and nice. I will enjoy this series. I do enjoy it.

What a fantastic story 👏

This is one the all around best books that I have listened to in along time. Great characters. The heroes and the villains were very compelling. I really hope there is more to this series. Five stars all around. I highly recommend it to anyone!

Ok

This could have been great, but fell short. Mostly because every single "hero" is messed up. Only two are somewhat normal, but talk about having PTSD. and having to work hard to get better. No matter the amount of crap they went through, or how many of them had preexisting conditions, there would be some that make it through without crippling mental trauma. It's just too extreme in the, everyone's messed up, direction to make sense to me. I get it your trying to be more "real", but you went too far the other way.

The battle scenes are awesome

Love the story just wish they would shorten the spoken spells. But otherwise this is a fantastic story

Fun read - a few content warnings

I really enjoyed the prose and the plot! The characters feel fully developed and their voices fit.

I would just note that there are some descriptions of abuse and recollections of the same that could be pretty triggering for some. Not a criticism, just an fyi.