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A review by koistyfishy
Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
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? Yes
5.0
5 Acutely Aware Stars ⭐️
Spicy Level: 🌶️🌶️/5
This book, is quite frankly, BETTER THAN SEX. It was so enjoyable, satisfying, and pleasurable. The excitement that I got from this and the gratification of just being back in this world and seeing a different part of it was amazing!!!!!
This book follows Lilith who is trying to find a cure for a plague that has cursed her town for the last 15 years. In doing so, she makes a bargain with Vale. a vampire that lives on the outskirts of her village. In exchange for some of his blood, she will bring him 6 "special" roses, 1 each month.
Lilith was an amazingly complex and convoluted character that was so beautiful to experience. She is terminally ill, but so she's not afraid of death. All she's afraid of is her lack of time and trying to save her sister, who is dying of this plague. She doesn't show fear when being pushed into a situation. She approaches things with logic and innate curiosity, to understand how things work and why they work this way. I also really appreciated that we had an FMC who was thirty!!!! Sometimes a girl just wants to read about a character who is closer to her age, you know?
Vale is very much her mirror image in Vampiric form. He is a little bit more playful, coy and flirtatious; but he also has this charismatic curiosity to understand things around him. He might also be a little bit of a hoarder. (OK he's quite a lot a hoarder)
What completely and utterly captivated me about this story was that even though it was a novella, it managed to do what so many books do not manage to do as full-length novels! This is one of the BEST Beauty and the Beast retellings I have read in a LONG TIME!!!! A fucking long time! It gave me those nostalgic vibes of watching that original Disney movie, and it is the very definition of reinforcement to why I love "Beauty and the Beast retellings" as a trope. There was so much character development in these few pages and so much relationship development between Vale and Lilith. THEY ACTUALLY went through the beautiful natural progression of "Enemies to friends to Lovers"!!!
It was beautiful. This book was beautiful! The chemistry between these two characters was bleeding off the page and I couldn't stop devouring this. It was all I thought about when I had to put it down...A girl has to sleep at some point and by 3pm I needed to accept my fate...
The writing in this is superb and I can see why Carissa has skyrocketed into popularity at the moment because her worldbuilding, prose, descriptions of everything, and how she's put together such a captivating and complicated world was spectacular!!! It's just on a whole other level of beauty!
This book is for you if you want:
▶ Enemies to Lovers
▶ Beauty and the Beast Retelling
▶ Pen Pals
▶ Touch her you die literally
▶ Vampire/Human Romance
▶ He calls her "mouse"
Book Fact: "Acutely Aware" appears 6 times in this novella!
Spicy Level: 🌶️🌶️/5
This book, is quite frankly, BETTER THAN SEX. It was so enjoyable, satisfying, and pleasurable. The excitement that I got from this and the gratification of just being back in this world and seeing a different part of it was amazing!!!!!
This book follows Lilith who is trying to find a cure for a plague that has cursed her town for the last 15 years. In doing so, she makes a bargain with Vale. a vampire that lives on the outskirts of her village. In exchange for some of his blood, she will bring him 6 "special" roses, 1 each month.
Lilith was an amazingly complex and convoluted character that was so beautiful to experience. She is terminally ill, but so she's not afraid of death. All she's afraid of is her lack of time and trying to save her sister, who is dying of this plague. She doesn't show fear when being pushed into a situation. She approaches things with logic and innate curiosity, to understand how things work and why they work this way. I also really appreciated that we had an FMC who was thirty!!!! Sometimes a girl just wants to read about a character who is closer to her age, you know?
Vale is very much her mirror image in Vampiric form. He is a little bit more playful, coy and flirtatious; but he also has this charismatic curiosity to understand things around him. He might also be a little bit of a hoarder. (OK he's quite a lot a hoarder)
What completely and utterly captivated me about this story was that even though it was a novella, it managed to do what so many books do not manage to do as full-length novels! This is one of the BEST Beauty and the Beast retellings I have read in a LONG TIME!!!! A fucking long time! It gave me those nostalgic vibes of watching that original Disney movie, and it is the very definition of reinforcement to why I love "Beauty and the Beast retellings" as a trope. There was so much character development in these few pages and so much relationship development between Vale and Lilith. THEY ACTUALLY went through the beautiful natural progression of "Enemies to friends to Lovers"!!!
It was beautiful. This book was beautiful! The chemistry between these two characters was bleeding off the page and I couldn't stop devouring this. It was all I thought about when I had to put it down...A girl has to sleep at some point and by 3pm I needed to accept my fate...
The writing in this is superb and I can see why Carissa has skyrocketed into popularity at the moment because her worldbuilding, prose, descriptions of everything, and how she's put together such a captivating and complicated world was spectacular!!! It's just on a whole other level of beauty!
This book is for you if you want:
▶ Enemies to Lovers
▶ Beauty and the Beast Retelling
▶ Pen Pals
▶ Touch her you die literally
▶ Vampire/Human Romance
▶ He calls her "mouse"
Book Fact: "Acutely Aware" appears 6 times in this novella!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Blood
Moderate: Violence and Death of parent
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault