A review by azza_fageery
The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King by Carissa Broadbent

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

Well well well 

This book is very very slow but I don’t hate it… 

It unravels -in depth- Raihn’s character and what he’s been through from the moment he was Turned till the day he became King, and goes into detail about Oraya’s character development, her past, her mother and father and who she was and then her character develops into Queen of the house of night. 

Favorite/ saddest quote:

 

“Please,” he says. 
      But the king just strokes the back of his head. “You have no more home,” he says, somewhat pityingly, words serrated with the thick tang of his accent. “You exist only here.” 
      Years later, the man will remember little of this conversation. But those four words will remain, even when the specifics of the rest are long lost: You exist only here.”