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Rise Up from the Embers by Kristen Simmons, Sara Raasch

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shoni's review

adventurous dark hopeful informative inspiring tense fast-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

3.0

Now finally getting an ending to the story just puts one part of my constantly thinking brain to rest. I do like how it picked up right where the first one ended. That it didn’t bother with a time skip or anything. Just a few unimportant days had passed and I appreciated that. Though I will say even in the second book I felt like I wanted to see more fight scenes, we did get more but it seemed we got more about the planning and sneaking around and such than the fighting scenes. Thoses always seemed to end in a few pages. Which I felt like could be expanded on a lot more. Especially that final battle, which just seemed to have happened so quickly with more taunting than anything. I did enjoy the closer look into the world. On how the different areas were built to accommodate each god and the people within that region. I do wish we got more descriptive on the other lands that Ash was on as I felt a quick overview was done and then not addressed again.

I do think Ash’s character was done amazingly. It could not only see how a war could change someone but someone with so much power could have issues trying to understand where they stand on a war against mortals and gods essentially. This also proved the point that men are useless beings and the best thing for them to do is support a woman. As they are the only ones who can keep things in order and fix things. I did get annoyed as one does when reading with the characters and their decisions and resulted in some rants to my friend but honestly those are the best moments that I always enjoy looking back on texts on to see how emotionally annoyed a book made me at specific moments.

The ending did make complete sense as well yet at the same time not.

as like the gods are all dead now but their powers still exist, how does that work? As without a source they don't exist? OR is the physical thing itself a source now? Such as the trees and flowers for the itza people and fire for the kulta? Though having the main gang all lose their power makes sense as no one should be that powerful. Yet still lots of confusion about how such powers still exist now.

though I do feel like it did make it full circle and wrapped things up as nicely as possible. Though I would have enjoyed a bit more from the epilouge to know what things are like now.

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bookwormbullet's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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ajthequeen's review

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adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

I consumed this book in one sitting! I read Set Fire to the Gods when it came out, so I was nervous starting this book thinking id forgotten everything. But thankfully the authors did a good job of making this easy to follow despite the time between books! This book was really good and I enjoyed it, it was very fast- paced and a fun read.

What I liked: fast paced, romance, the magic system/power usage, each god/dess felt unique

What I didn’t like: spoilers from this point on!

I felt like some of the events in this book were added for dramatic effect/forward the plot rather than happening organically. Madoc being enslaved by Anathrasa being a big one. The zombie-fication was a fine plot point, but Madoc becoming one was just sooo unnecessary in my opinion. What I HATED most was freaking Ash losing all her powers!! Are you serious??? STOP MAKING THE POWERFUL FEMALE LOSE ALL HER POWERS AT THE END!!! Ash had this entire meltdown in book one about losing her power, it nearly killed her, etc., and in this book she loses it and shes like “yeah ill be alright :)” NO. It DOESNT MAKE SENSE. Then they gave her a FIREPOWERED DAUGHTER? How f-d up is that? First throne of glass, then a court of silver flames, ((maybe)) supergirl, now ash? Is no woman safe? Anyways, for these reasons this book gets a 3.75 instead of 4.5.

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