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Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

77 reviews

chi__'s review against another edition

4.75

lighthearted tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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larareads's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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borealtoad's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark emotional

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Spoilers ahead!!

The first half or so of this book was a bit boring and forgettable. I found myself begging Sera and Ash to stop talking, get out of bed, and brush their teeth or something.

The second part of the book picked back up nicely! It was a welcome return to the well-written and exciting story I’d been missing. There was a lot of action and though people died (stop killing draken!!) I’m thrilled that we didn’t lose

main characters or people we really cared about

in the final battle. It would have been too much after losing

Ezra and the whole kingdom of Lasania, basically.

I’m so tired of that level of doom and gloom. Seeing a truly unhinged and nutso Kolis was interesting, too.

I really enjoyed how Sera’s trauma and her processing of it was portrayed. She’s deeply flawed and her mistakes actually mattered. It’s refreshing to see that from a FMC.

I didn’t love how most of Ash’s personality was reduced to “over-protective wife-guy”. The chemistry and banter from books 1 and 2 was gone (until the end of the book imo). Ash doing things like growling at a doctor for touching Sera just made me mad. That’s not cute!! Chill out!!

And finally, the pregnancy trope. Normally I hate it and I was dreading the reveal from the first mention of nausea. BUT this one actually made sense and was well done. It wasn’t just plopped in there to wrap things up (cough cough

ACOTAR

). I liked that it played a part in the plot and answered a lot of questions. I did NOT like how much it emphasized that Sera and Ash had only known each other for like four months. How is that possible? It pissed me off. Anyway.

The first half had me annoyed but the second half had me locked in. I cant wait for the final book to come out in a few days!

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taryngoehrig's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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tuckert2's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kit_kat006's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'm confilted with this book. I alternated between the numeric and audiobook. I dont not think I would have been able to finish the book underwise. The frist 60% of the book are mainly dialog that last for an eternity without any developement at all. The last 40%, which is the interesting part, feels so rush to me.

The character talk of entombing Kolis for the whole book and it end up being a rush battle within 1 chapter. For this strong being, it seems to be easily completed and disappointing. But this is my personal opinion

This book could have easily been 400 pages rather than 800. There was so many filler chapter of spicy scene. Summary, both character don't want talk about their trauma, they will get shack it up (all the freaking time!)! I felt this book prioritize spice vs plot. This is were my interest was lost.

I'm still looking forward to The primal of Blood and Bone! But I feel the last two book in the Flesh and Fire series have been a major disappointment compared to the Blood and Ash series. I truly hope we have a lovely finality of the story.

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anotherrandomuser's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Ok first I’m going to talk about the book, then the series, and I’ve tried to avoid any and all spoliers:

This book was SO GOOD! The tension throughout the book was really nice. I don’t know how many times I yelled, “that a**hole” in agreement with Sera, Nyktos, Attes, or Nyktas. The spicy scenes were just as good as they were in the first book and I can’t believe this part is over 🥲.

Plot:
Overarching and ties together very nicely. There were a few times when I got confused with the prophecy, but then again- is it truly a prophecy if not confusing?

Characters:
I felt a deep emotional connection with each of these characters at least once. A book hasn’t made me start balling in a while but Sera’s stages of trauma really got to me.

(My fav characters are Saion, Nyktas, Sera, Nytos, Attes - in that order)

Romance:
I think the main thing I loved about this series and this author is that she doesn’t fully romanticize romance. She gives us the struggles and the hardships that come with it, as well as the fun times.

Rocking the Steamboat Scenes:
Holy- mother of everything- if you want spicy scenes you’ve come to the right place!

The author overall does an amazing job with human emotions and intentions, writing the fine line of when they can get blurred.

I can’t wait to read the next series!! 🤩🤩

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