200 reviews for:

Ashes of Gold

J. Elle

3.83 AVERAGE

destinedreads's review

3.0

adventurous challenging 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

janessaloren's review

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional tense

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

eliza_m_ecrire's review against another edition

2.0

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Si vous vous souvenez bien de ce que j’avais pensé du premier tome, on sait que j’avais aimé, sans pour autant que ce soit un coup de cœur en grande partie en raison de la thématique. C’est pourquoi j’étais quand même excitée à l’idée de lire la suite, le dernier volet de cette duologie.

Mon verdict ? Déception sur toute la ligne.

Critique complète ici : https://lesmotsdezaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/critique-45-ashes-of-gold-2022-par-j-elle/

deidra_shadetreereads's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I never recovered from the whiplash and disorientating pacing in the prologue and 1st chapters. I kept waiting to get the information we needed to make Rue's new attitude and passion make sense. It eventually came but waaaay too late for me. Overall, I liked the story, themes and writing okay. It's just that it felt so different from book 1 for at least 70% of the time. With so many fight scenes and such, I still got bored. And I think that that's because we, the readers, didn't get to experience Rue's moment of "truth" along with her. Instead, we reunite with her after she's been in the trenches with her people for a minute gaining an understanding of who they are and what her parents died trying to ensure she knew about. That created a disconnect for me. All that said, I'm hype for Elle's middle grade and I'd likely read another book in this Wings of Ebony series if she put one out. I had hoped to like this one a lot more than I did but it was still a good read for Black SFFathon 2022!

butterflybriar's review

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-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

reading_with_manders's review

3.5

adventurous hopeful fast-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

mehezz's review

4.0

adventurous reflective tense medium-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

elinightingale's review

3.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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this was certainly a book that was written and published with a plot and characters.

booksenvogue's review

5.0

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I read this book twice! I'm just glad this ending to the sequel didn't completely destroy me. While the love triangle didn't payout as I hoped, it was quite unique to end it this way.

amypt46's review

2.0

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“Leading is a never ending battle between believing you are good enough to do it and understanding how capable you are of making a grave misstep”

I wish this second book in this duology could have hit me as hard as this quote. But it just did not. Rue/jelani was a powerhouse in book 1 and I couldn’t wait to read more about her. But this book slogged through 100 pages of nothing happening and then we had some interesting things happen for a minute but then there was just too much. There was no need to throw every possible battle cliche into the mix and have her be backstabbed that many times. And the love triangle?!? I honestly never want that in my fantasy novels but it is another trope we apparently must live with…

Rue, you had me all in for “wings of ebony”. I just couldn’t follow you in this one. As much as I wanted you to kick that stupid white dudes butt