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Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

9 reviews

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment

Minor: Genocide, Alcohol

taryn_g's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment

Minor: Body shaming, Confinement, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

zomigi's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The politics of this book is bonkers to me. I'm supposed to believe that the good guys are the ones who declare that there needs to be a single-party system and anyone who won't swear allegiance to them they'll murder and then install one of their lackeys on the seat of government for each sub-country? What kind of fascist USSR bullshit is this? And after Sera commits literal atrocities the lesson she takes away from it is, I should never have tried to be a better person, I should have leaned all the way into being a murderous unhinged monster from the start?? Wtf? Yeah, Kolis is worse, but that's not saying much. A jar of expired mayonnaise would make a better ruler than Kolis—it doesn't mean that Sera and Nyktos are actually good. This book made me deeply dislike Sera, which is a shame, because I had been enjoying Sera/Ash more than Poppy/Cas. It was also deeply unpleasant to read about her dealing with her trauma, I think even more so than reading the actual trauma occuring in the last book. Btw, why'd you have to retcon her abuse to include fingering now Jennifer?? Just to twist the knife? It would have made a better point about her assault not being "nothing" if you didn't include touching genitals but showed that this is assault regardless. I was also stressed out the whole time about the effect Sera's PTSD/depression would be having on her babies, and pissed off that once she learned she was pregnant she refused to stop fighting to protect them. I am getting so tired of "badass" female characters who are only badass because they're aggressive, violent, and reckless. I want a female character to be badass because she is smart, calculating, and controlled! Show me the power in restraint! Anyway, Attes and Holland are wonderful and nearly everyone else is annoying to me at this point. I'm going to stick with the series because I've come this far, but man am I pissed at how much potential this series had and how far it went off the rails.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol

sarah_speaks's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship

Minor: Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

potatolord's review against another edition

3.25

reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Violence, Vomit, War

Moderate: Body shaming, Blood, Abortion, Alcohol

vettechmama3's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

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Not going to lie, the first like quarter to half of this book was a bore. It was so slow and nothing was happening. And then it took a turn and was back to back information and twists and turns and intriguing. Overall I still liked the book and I still loved the characters, but the first portion easily could've been condensed to like 3 chapters tops. Can't wait to see how the next book of B&A goes and intertwines with F&F. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Grief, War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Pregnancy

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

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Really enjoyed this. A lot of questions were answered but I still have a lot of questions about the main series. I thought some aspects were rushed and I was hoping to see more of Sera and Nyktos as parents. Nyktos is a top tier shadow daddy and I love Nektas as well. Reaver is so precious and I loved his relationship with Sera. Overall a pretty good read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit, Gaslighting

Minor: Child death, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

selestre's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Confinement, Physical abuse, Vomit, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

carsons1996's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious tense slow-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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It was admittedly hard to get through this book because of how slow the plot progressed but the ending really carried most of the weight of the 5 star rating 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pregnancy

Minor: Alcohol