A review by thisnursereads
Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

4.0

⭐️4.0

“Time, Vale,” I said. “Time is the most valuable resource of all, and some of us are perpetually short.”

Carissa Broadbent has brought us a thought-provoking standalone fantasy-romance novella in only 180 pages. The eyes flow past her words like a knife through butter on a warm day and this is easily a book that can be read in one sitting.

This is book 1.5 of her A Crowns of Nyaxia series that is a story following two characters, Lilith and Vale:

There is Lilith, a women tormented by death and there is no hiding from it. Either the death that surrounds her brought on by a curse from a God, causing the lands and people to rot away, or the impending death of her terminal illness, that walks with her like a shadow. Lilith is a scientist and like many scientists, she is a driven, obsessive, workaholic that places her cause at the forefront of her life. Lilith hopes to find a cure to save the ones she loves but in order to do that she must go against the Gods.

We meet Vale, a brooding