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From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

465 reviews

vkv's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 82%

Had some interesting stuff but I just got tired of YA from this. Especially when the protagonist went into a frenzy and violently dismembered her nemesis, I just felt too exhausted by the senseless violence and grapples with murder in YA novels in general. The romance was also very intense and I got tired of that too.

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megan_peters_'s review against another edition

2.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Sexy, exciting, full of twists and turns, but while the potential for great world building and plot is there, the series tends to lose focus on the plot often. Not to mention the writing is NOO thing to rave about

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stevie_xzo's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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anjasfairylights's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don‘t get half of what‘s happening in the second half of the book, but I‘m intrigued.

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katyfortner's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I am not quite sure why this book took me so long to read. I kept picking it up and putting it back down. I started with the audiobook and did not like the initial one I was listening to and decided to just go buy the book and read it and it flew by. I am not the biggest fan of the character name choices, but I still enjoyed the journey. I don't normally read vampire books, but I definitely enjoyed this one.

Now, I know Poppy is supposed to be this innocent, naïve maiden, but she was frustrating me so much. I could not believe how long it took her to figure some stuff out when I had an idea for a good bit of the novel and every hint just kept confirming it for me. Like Hawke being the "Dark One", there were so many slip-ups that she should have seen, but didn't. One of them being the Duke being staked by the cane that he hit her with on multiple occasions and Hawke had legit just heard about it from the Priestess' slip-up and he just so happens to have been gone while the Duke was MIA. Also, Hawke had admitted to Poppy that he had killed the Duke like WTF. Then when Delano said, "If the Prince wanted you dead, you'd already be dead. You should eat." Hawke had just said that no one is to lay a finger on her and she doesn't put 2 and 2 together. My final straw was how he had mentioned rescuing the Prince's brother and he just so happens to also have a missing brother that he has said he would do anything to see again.. GIRL WAKE UP!
Overall, I did enjoy the story and will keep on reading the series to see what happens, especially since Cas just casually throws out the whole marriage proposal situation at the end of the book.

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cynthcer's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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nmtthews's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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minapmreads's review against another edition

4.0

emotional mysterious relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Very easy book to read. Main hook is the romantic components. Sometimes got repetitive and wanted the plot to move forward faster. It is overall an enjoyable book. Itching to read the rest of the books.

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emmerylynn's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This got me out of my longest reading slump (over a year). AND it introduced me to New Adult Fantasy (my current reading preference). There are some parts that made me cringe with the main character’s POV, but the fast-paced plot and the romantic interest made this a page turner. I love the world building in this one and the twist was so shocking!

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kamross's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

I'm surprised to see a lot of terrible reviews on this - but given the fact that I read it in 4 days (and would have read it much sooner if I didn't have a job and a family 😂), it's safe to say that I really enjoyed it.

I looooove slow burn and descriptive writing. Really the only negative on this for me is that I could see the plot twist coming, but that wasn't a huge deal to me.

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