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From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout

jessicatyler's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

theliteraryel's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

lauracjohnsen's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

lovelylyn01's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

missemleigh's review against another edition

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once again all it takes to get me out of a reading slump is some sleazy fantasy.... oops. overall I really enjoyed this book, the characters, and the potential for the magic/power system to go. very fast paced and finished this over the span of a day...lol. very angsty but not the best in terms of partners with red flags hehe
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spoilery thoughts:
poppy, the maiden, is supposed to ascend as the chosen one of her kingdom but craven attacks start killing people in the castle. she ventures out one night to a (basically sex dungeon) hahaha and meets Hawke, a royal guard who seduces her. later, a lady in waiting and one of her personal guards are killed by (what we think) are descenders, those who oppose the ascended and their rule. there is a craven attack on the rise, the barrier that separates the kingdom from the descenders and atlantians. she is beat by the duke and the lord for disobeying (talking to other women, socializing) etc as her gifts of sensing peoples emotions gets stronger and expands. at the rite, poppy's first attendance, she and Hawke sneak away to the jacaranda tree and ~smooch~. then vikter and Hawke get into an argument, and the next thing we know the duke is dead (killed by Hawke with the cane he used to beat poppy). the descenters attack once again and victor ends up dead. poppy also hacks lord mazes head off (iconic). the duchess seeks no punishment, but they need to head to the capital per request of the queen and king. on their way there, poppy and Hawke sleep together and read from the dirty diary lmao. once things start to seem fishy to one of the royal guards, its revealed that some of the "guards" are actually wolven and were the ones who killed rylan, her former guard. at one of the previous ceremonies a couple pleads for the life of their son, and that father shows up to be a wolven too. Hawke is revealed to be Atlantian and have the two fangs poppy read about earlier. Hawke reveals that they are trading poppy for this brother, the king of Atlantia and that the ascended created the craven by killing and sucking the blood from children/mortals. the former king males created the vampry by ascending (almost immortal and cant walk in the sun). the vampry were bloothirsty and were draining mortals to ascend. (brings up the point that atlantians have also killed, where is the line drawn?). Hawke is revealed to be the dark one, or cas, and then poppy STABS him, but not where he will die. and then randomly he and poppy have sex again even though her whole world was just shattered??? they drink from eachother, but not enough to turn (or culling). Hawke has a brand on from of the royal crest from when they drank his blood and tortured him a long time ago. the book ends with the traitors/decendents traveling with them plastered, dead on the walls and Hawke/Casteel planning to bring poppy to Atlantia to marry her (princess, also she is probably half Atlantian because of her powers)

scarfoot's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious relaxing slow-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

4.0

yipkelly's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

This book held such promise….. 

adela_ct's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

b3lze's review against another edition

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4.0

4⭐⭐⭐⭐

Romántico, con mucha acción y con entretenimiento para rato.

Después de darle la oportunidad que se merecía a De sangre y cenizas tengo muchísimas cosas que decir, tantas que esta vez incluso me tocará dividirlas en las cosas que me gustaron y en las que no.

Empezaré por lo que menos me gustó:
- Por mucho que este libro intente darnos a un protagonista masculino mucho más sano hay cosillas que no pueden dejar de chirriarme en sus actitudes un poco machistas, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta lo bien hecho que está el resto del libro. Que fuerce a Poppy a ir a un sitio u otro, que la acose en ciertos momentos y que no le dé alterativa en general es lo que no, y lo único en realidad, me gusta de él.
Spoiler- Creo que el momento de "en realidad todo estáis viviendo engañados y en realidad los malos somos los buenos" es algo que esta absurdamente trillado. También por esto acaban resolviendo muchas incógnitas a la vez que a mí me habría gustado más que se aguantaran en el tiempo y que a la vez se desarrollaran más (aunque a lo mejor esto ya se hace en las siguientes partes).


Y ahora os diré lo que más me gustó o lo que creo que son sus grandes puntos a favor:
- En el libro ocurren muchísimas cosas, pero cuando digo muchas es que de verdad son una barbaridad, y creo que están todas muy bien llevadas. Ningún tema se extiende más de lo necesario, no se da protagonismo absurdo a x personajes, se cierran temas en su tiempo justo y todo esto hace que devores el libro sin apenas darte cuenta.
- Coges muchísimo cariño a personajes secundarios en un tiempo absurdamente corto.
- La relación entre Poppy y Hawk es electrizante, se toman su tiempo para retarse, conocerse, hacerse amigos, quererse y luego aún así seguir metiéndose el uno con el otro. Sencillamente hay que quererlos.
- Las escenas eróticas son buenísimas en cuanto a que son explicitas en su justa medidas, son una cantidad muy asumible y acertada para la largura del libro y además podríamos decir que son en situaciones bastante diversas, cosa que agrada ya que en todos los demás libros siempre solemos ver lo mismo.
- El worldbuilding me parece un poco escaso pero lo que hay es bueno y de calidad para lo que estamos acostumbrados en este tipo de géneros, se entretienen en dar un lore curioso cuanto menos con el tema de la Doncella y en las situaciones bastante complejas que la rodean. Con esto enlazo un poco con un punto de las cosas que dije que no me habían gustado.
- Y con diferencia lo que más me gusto es que la protagonista fuera una tía de armas tomar de forma literal. Me encanta que pueda dar escenas de acción en los que no solo sea un estorbo, que pueda poner a raya a Hawk y desde luego saber que será alguien independiente que siempre podrá defenderse sola.

abbeysykes's review against another edition

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

3.75