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Tarnished Embers

Rosa Lee

3.43 AVERAGE


Rosa Lee is easily one of my favorite authors. This wasn’t my absolute favorites of hers, but it’s still pretty good. Just fast- definitely not a read you want if you’re more into slow burns. This doesn’t all make conventional sense, but it’s a fun read.
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gypsyreads's review


DNF, too much going on in personal life to focus on this book. 

Chapter 11. 
Page 119.
37%
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Such good smut, but a great retelling too. It’s such a fun dark twist. 
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theblondereader_'s review

3.5
dark emotional fast-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
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shanda_weil's review

4.0
adventurous dark sad tense fast-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: No

Alright so first off this book is smut! It starts off heavy and strong and the kind of book that you just enjoy as total fiction and don’t think or question it too hard. 
The smut was hot, lots of group play including MM. 
I was really glad that this wasn’t a bully romance, with the “evil” side of things I was worried that wasn’t mentioned in the description but they truly love her from the beginning. 
Three things I didn’t like and brought it down to 4 stars. 
1) On page self-harm and suicide attempt, AND it glorified it. She got help eventually but that was a hard storyline to be ok with. 
2) Almost on page rape. SPOILER! Normally the hero’s get there in time and they didn’t. It wasn’t graphic and faded to black once it started but you knew. 
3) pushing the bro/sis angle. I know it’s taboo and I’m cool with it but it was constantly pushed and it was just way too much for me. 

I would be open to reading more of this series! 

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annalea85's review

3.5
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ssaini28's review

2.0
dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I had really high hopes for this one, but after reading Tainted Saints, this paled in comparison for me.

I'm usually a complete sucker for a Cinderella retelling and taboo dark romance, and usually with Rosa's MMCs I have a clear favourite in the group - but this time I don't and I think it's probabky because I was comparing it to Tainted Saints in my head the entire time.

Read at your own risk.

This book is not for everyone but is extra steamy.

Includes MMFMM and taboo topics.

The plot is a little bit scattered but ties up well in the end over all.

The characters make several questionable and illogical choices but if you're there for the smut then read on!