Reviews with content warning for Sexual assault - Born of Blood and Ash

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Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

77 reviews

strawberryiesful's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny 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

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ashleighg_'s review against another edition

3.25

inspiring mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

This was the final book of the Flesh and Fire series. I felt a lot of the book was meetings - and although the politics of the world were intriguing, I found the book pretty slow. It was annoying that Kolis got away with so much but yet Fates couldn't make it fair (even though this point was brought up by Sera/Ash the majority of the book) it just felt a bit meh. Which is annoying because I really enjoyed Ash and Sera, along with all the other characters of the Shadowlands. It felt everything kinda happened the last 20% of the book and would have been good to have the final battle in the middle of the book and had more development of the story after the battle i.e.

once Ash and Sera's children are born, the ascension of Attes, the reconstruction of the realms in the aftermath

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abihurland's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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mooglebaby's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book felt so very very long. I understand it was the last in this series and had a lot of ground to cover, but it was a slog to get through. Not nearly as much happened as I thought would and there was so much filler. I love the first books in this series, but this one could have been half the length to tell the same story.

Much of the filler in this book was spice. The book is so horny. Don't get me wrong, I love some good spice, but when a book is this long, I don't think we need quite *that* many sex scenes. It felt like filler to make the book longer instead of being meaningful.

The book also tried to touch on so many heavy themes or 'hot button' issues: assault, suicide, general trauma, abortion...there's more I'm sure. At first is was interesting, but then it started to feel a little shoe horned in, a writing challenge to see how many heavy/triggering topics can we fit in here or how can we stretch this book out even longer than it needs to be. It stopped feeling genuine very quickly.

You know Sera ends up pregnant at some point, but I don't love how it was done. Maybe its the place I currently am in life (hi from a childless cat lady), but I did not love the long bits going on about being pregnant and how wonderful & magical it is to be a parent. Had I been reading the physical book and not the audiobook, I would have skimmed/skipped those sections. I was over it very quickly.

The whole plot with the prophecy felt very convoluted to me. What they thought it meant, what other characters thought it meant, what it actually means and how it ties to the Blood & Ash series. I got so lost. I have not currently read the last two B&A books, so maybe that's part of the issue? I know enough to be dangerous, but not helpful? I also got lost in the last chapter that was part of the future

Calum and the diamond, the prophecy being fulfilled

. It just felt so confusing.

Last notes - I thought this series had way too many characters I did start to mix them up. However, some of them had fun personalities and were very interesting. In this book, too many people blended together and felt flat. The charm that I found it a large cast was lost.

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chaoticneutralfriend's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Non spoiler review- I can genuinely say that this book has changed my brain chemistry in the best way. I’ll never be the same.

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melinette7chocolatine's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional 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: Complicated

Once again, JLA did wonders with her book. Sera and Ash's relationship growing stronger through trauma is beautiful. One could wish for more scenes with Jadis and Reaver that are so loveable, and hopefully there'll be a book that gets into them further as well as

a book that shows Ires and Malec grow with the two drake, and would go over details as to why they picked these names for the babies, how did Malec's leaving happen, and the main events in between Sera's and Poppy's times. JLA also took her sweet time to have Sera realise she is pregnant, maybe too much time as it was strongly hinted since the previous book already.

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