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kellyyoungbl's review against another edition
4.0
Solid start
I enjoyed this book. I thought it was a good start to the series. I didn't totally love the MC, but I think I'll like her more as she starts to open up and becomes more of a bada**
I enjoyed this book. I thought it was a good start to the series. I didn't totally love the MC, but I think I'll like her more as she starts to open up and becomes more of a bada**
laurenreadthis's review against another edition
4.0
These characters are so good! I'm not too sure where the plot is going to go, but I'm ready to see how these characters handle it.
jmpres's review against another edition
1.0
The “pick me” energy and internalized misogyny was so prevalent in this book that I couldn’t enjoy it. “I was thrown off by the fact that she wasn’t screeching or crying the way most girls did when they were insulted,” “plus weren’t some girls afraid of carbs or some shit?”
The boys are condescending as shit “I was trying for a reference a girl like you would recognize.” And when asked to eat a salad, one of them got upset and said “you haven’t spent much time around guys, have you?” They shame her for almost falling prey to the shifter in the truck in the beginning instead of just explaining who he was and warning her against him in the future.
Also, at one point, one of the boys says “I wonder if she’ll taste like smoke and honey when I lick across her her caramel thighs” and another one of the boys thinks that he always forgets that the first boy is a “kinky asshole.” Since when is that kinky?
Besides all the above, the writing (especially the overuse of exclamation points) made this read as a YA book. Additionally, I understand that everyone has different responses to trauma but the level of abuse that Nix has suffered means it wasn’t particularly believable how quickly she became comfortable with the guys, or honestly how quickly she became sassy and snarky.
Lots of telling not showing. Time wasn’t real (a chapter would cover a single hour and then we would skip a week between chapters).
The book ended on a cliffhanger but even that isn’t enough for me to keep reading the series. There are lots of incredible RH series, and imo this isn’t one of them.
The boys are condescending as shit “I was trying for a reference a girl like you would recognize.” And when asked to eat a salad, one of them got upset and said “you haven’t spent much time around guys, have you?” They shame her for almost falling prey to the shifter in the truck in the beginning instead of just explaining who he was and warning her against him in the future.
Also, at one point, one of the boys says “I wonder if she’ll taste like smoke and honey when I lick across her her caramel thighs” and another one of the boys thinks that he always forgets that the first boy is a “kinky asshole.” Since when is that kinky?
Besides all the above, the writing (especially the overuse of exclamation points) made this read as a YA book. Additionally, I understand that everyone has different responses to trauma but the level of abuse that Nix has suffered means it wasn’t particularly believable how quickly she became comfortable with the guys, or honestly how quickly she became sassy and snarky.
Lots of telling not showing. Time wasn’t real (a chapter would cover a single hour and then we would skip a week between chapters).
The book ended on a cliffhanger but even that isn’t enough for me to keep reading the series. There are lots of incredible RH series, and imo this isn’t one of them.
rebekkaar's review
5.0
Born of embers
Since the fourth book in this series just got releast I decided to reread the the first books. This is still a great and suspenseful story. Nix has had a difficult life and just escaped her home. She moved as far from sunny Florida she could manage and ended up going to school in Alaska. There she is thrust into the world of shifters, learning about herself and what she is. Meeting mystical shifters that falls hard for her and want to protect her. She has to learn to trust others and survive when her past comes back to haunt her while the shifters in power would love nothing less than for Nix to be a breeding machine. Her being the only known shifter of her kind is going to make her new freedom that much harder to keep.
Since the fourth book in this series just got releast I decided to reread the the first books. This is still a great and suspenseful story. Nix has had a difficult life and just escaped her home. She moved as far from sunny Florida she could manage and ended up going to school in Alaska. There she is thrust into the world of shifters, learning about herself and what she is. Meeting mystical shifters that falls hard for her and want to protect her. She has to learn to trust others and survive when her past comes back to haunt her while the shifters in power would love nothing less than for Nix to be a breeding machine. Her being the only known shifter of her kind is going to make her new freedom that much harder to keep.
heather_reads_romance's review
5.0
Born of embers
I could not put this book down. I was hooked from the start and needed to find out what would happen! Nix and the boys have an awesome dynamic going between them and i can’t wait to see where things lead.
I could not put this book down. I was hooked from the start and needed to find out what would happen! Nix and the boys have an awesome dynamic going between them and i can’t wait to see where things lead.
audioread's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Violence
forsakenfates's review against another edition
5.0
I loved this. The boys are so good to Nix. The writing is pretty simple and each character's voice isn't super well defined when the POV switches but I still devoured this book and immediately started book 2.