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274 reviews for:
A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope: A Paranormal Spinoff to The Fabric of our Souls
K.M. Moronova
4.25 AVERAGE
274 reviews for:
A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope: A Paranormal Spinoff to The Fabric of our Souls
K.M. Moronova
4.25 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book was absolutely incredible and the perfect follow up to the fabric of our souls!!
slow-paced
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
Merged review:
Firstly, I have to thank the author for allowing me to ARC read this amazing book. Since reading “The Fabric of Our Souls”, I have been waiting rather impatiently for this one…and wow did it exceed all of my wildest expectations!
This book was pure poetry from start to finish. I quite literally could not get enough and certainly can’t wait to own the hardcover someday.
The entire time I read this lovely book, I felt related to in the most healing way and by the time I’d finished it, I was left feeling that “ray of hope for weary souls”.
This book was honestly like a warm hug on the dreariest of days
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️
Second Chances
Mental Health
Afterlife
Found family
Gothic
Emotional
🔸Summary:
This is a spin off from The Fabric of Our Souls and it follows Lanston journey in the afterlife. It’s been 5 years since his death and he’s been miserable ever since, not accepting what’s happened to him. Until he sees a dancing Ophelia with her purple hair, utterly captivating him. He wants to pass on to whatever is after here, but Ophelia wants to stay - haunted by her own past.
🔸Review:
I have literally sobbed at ever since chapter in this book, I couldn’t love it more if I tried! Lanston and Ophelia will always hold a special place in my heart, just as Wynn & Liam does😭
Gosh the way mental health is portrayed and written is so darn emotional and heart warming. It hits home! This is the 2nd book I’ve read by her and both have been 6 star reviews because they’ve just been so perfectly written.
Their journey of themselves and finding peace is so sweet and wholesome, I was utterly invested in their story and their past.
I have officially found my favourite author🥹🖤
🔸 Quotes:
“I want my love to haunt you - until the ocean dries.”
“They are my take on yearning. You see, the moth is darkness, chasing the butterfly, craving the brightness of it. But when the moth is the one running, the butterfly, being the light, chases it in return, unable to exist without the moth, because without darkness there is no light.”
“It isn’t your fault your most important organ failed and told you to crave death as a means of escape.”
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
K.M. Moronova has done it again—woven an intricate web of beauty and despair, longing and healing, in A Ballad of Phantoms and Hope. Ever since finishing book one, I knew his story would be the kind of heartache I’d willingly drown in. And oh, how right I was.
This book is hauntingly beautiful, the kind of story that doesn't just linger in your mind but etches itself into the marrow of your soul. Moronova’s prose reads like poetry spun from shadows and starlight, aching with a tenderness so raw it leaves you sobbing, clutching the book to your chest as though doing so might fill the empty ache it leaves behind.
Lanston and Ophelia were everything I hoped he would be: a symphony of tragedy and defiance, of love so all-consuming it could burn the sky. Their pain, their despair—oh, they resonated deeply, tearing me apart and piecing me back together in ways I didn’t know I needed.
The story feels like an ancient ballad whispered in the dark, haunting yet brimming with a fierce, undying love. This book will haunt me for years, in the best way possible.
The gothic atmosphere is painted with exquisite detail: cold winds that carry the weight of unspoken grief, and fleeting moments of warmth that feel like stolen breaths of hope in a suffocating world. The romance is the beating heart of it all—aching, deeply profound, and so gorgeously tragic that it leaves you both yearning and fulfilled.
If I could change anything, it would only be to give me more—more pages!
Ballad of Phantoms and Hope isn’t just a book; it’s an experience. It’s the kind of story that leaves you hollowed out and yet fuller than you were before. This book is for the dreamers, the ones who carry phantoms in their hearts and hope in their veins. A masterpiece.
This book is hauntingly beautiful, the kind of story that doesn't just linger in your mind but etches itself into the marrow of your soul. Moronova’s prose reads like poetry spun from shadows and starlight, aching with a tenderness so raw it leaves you sobbing, clutching the book to your chest as though doing so might fill the empty ache it leaves behind.
Lanston and Ophelia were everything I hoped he would be: a symphony of tragedy and defiance, of love so all-consuming it could burn the sky. Their pain, their despair—oh, they resonated deeply, tearing me apart and piecing me back together in ways I didn’t know I needed.
The story feels like an ancient ballad whispered in the dark, haunting yet brimming with a fierce, undying love. This book will haunt me for years, in the best way possible.
The gothic atmosphere is painted with exquisite detail: cold winds that carry the weight of unspoken grief, and fleeting moments of warmth that feel like stolen breaths of hope in a suffocating world. The romance is the beating heart of it all—aching, deeply profound, and so gorgeously tragic that it leaves you both yearning and fulfilled.
If I could change anything, it would only be to give me more—more pages!
Ballad of Phantoms and Hope isn’t just a book; it’s an experience. It’s the kind of story that leaves you hollowed out and yet fuller than you were before. This book is for the dreamers, the ones who carry phantoms in their hearts and hope in their veins. A masterpiece.
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I want to preface this by saying that The Fabric of our Souls was a 6-star book for me and might be one of my favorite books of all time. With that said, when I finished it, all I wanted was for there to be a perfect world where Liam, Wynn, and Lanston were a happy little throuple in Boston, so going into this book was going to be a little difficult, knowing I'd never get that.
Lanston's story continues to be beautiful, but I had to give this book 4 stars because it still felt like he deserved so much more. Ophelia's character felt very flighty and undercooked, and I didn't connect to her the way that I connected to Wynn. She didn't seem to have the character growth that Wynn had in TFOOS and it didn't feel like she loved Lanston as unconditionally as Wynn did. The pacing was also a little rough on this one, made worse by Ophelia's wishy-washy nature.
Still, Moronova knows how to write a beautiful story and having the final scene with Wynn, Liam, and their child instantly bumped it up to 4 stars for me, and had me in tears. Do I wish Lanston had a better ending, one he deserved?? Yes, but his story is a beautiful tragedy.
Lanston's story continues to be beautiful, but I had to give this book 4 stars because it still felt like he deserved so much more. Ophelia's character felt very flighty and undercooked, and I didn't connect to her the way that I connected to Wynn. She didn't seem to have the character growth that Wynn had in TFOOS and it didn't feel like she loved Lanston as unconditionally as Wynn did. The pacing was also a little rough on this one, made worse by Ophelia's wishy-washy nature.
Still, Moronova knows how to write a beautiful story and having the final scene with Wynn, Liam, and their child instantly bumped it up to 4 stars for me, and had me in tears. Do I wish Lanston had a better ending, one he deserved?? Yes, but his story is a beautiful tragedy.