A review by pleasureinatrocities
Born of Embers by Quinn Arthurs, Harper Wylde

2.0

Damn but the internalized misogyny was strong in this one! Some choice quotes "I was thrown off by the fact that she wasn't screeching or crying the way most girls did when they were insulted." "Plus weren't some girls afraid of carbs or some shit?" "Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I'm a traditional girl." Like wtf??? This is a reverse harem novel so the audience is primarily girls. Why would you insult your audience??? Why would you want to teach your audience to hate themselves? Especially since that last quote was in reference to her wanting to watch Marvel movies instead of romcoms. Newsflash, the audience of this book is probably more inclined to romcoms than Marvel or else they wouldn't be reading this, they'd be reading comic books. This is a real problem in RH where in order to be "worthy" of a harem, you have to be the "cool girl" who's not like those other girls. Like what is wrong with authors?? Girls are awesome! Girls are amazing! All girls not just ones who like stereotypical male things and sneer at stereotypical female things! Otherwise the book was fine, there's no smut because the authors are using the FMC's trauma as a way to make it a slow burn but the guys were essentially all in love with her the moment they met her so there's not going to be much relationship development there. I'm not going to be reading the rest of the series.

Summary: Nix has been abused and killed by her father since she was young but she keeps healing herself and coming back to life. Finally she runs as far away as she can to go to university in Alaska where she meets shifters and realizes she's a shifter too. A harem ensues.