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From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
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bookshelves: 5-stars, favorites, high-fantasy, romance, personally-own
Apr 09, 2020
bookshelves: 5-stars, favorites, high-fantasy, romance, personally-own
Wowza! This book was exactly what I needed!
I’ve been in a book rut for such a long time and this was the perfect NA fantasy romance novel to get me out of it. The fact that I found this book 90% predictable but still enjoyed it speaks volumes. It had a little too much inner monologue for me (which I ended up skimming over a lot tbh), but the romance, characters and overall plot were great. I also felt like the inexperienced/innocent girl trope was done very well and felt realistic in this book. I thought Hawke was a great love interest and I loved all of the scenes between Poppy and Hawke. I did feel like what Hawke announced on the last page of the book seemed a little strange - but I’m not going to complain about it because I love them together.
But I NEED to know what happens next! I’m so sad that it will likely be a long wait until book #2 😣
Note: This book actually reminded me a lot of The Red Winter trilogy by Annette Marie, which I also highly recommend to everyone (Red Winter would be the YA version of this book).
I’ve been in a book rut for such a long time and this was the perfect NA fantasy romance novel to get me out of it. The fact that I found this book 90% predictable but still enjoyed it speaks volumes. It had a little too much inner monologue for me (which I ended up skimming over a lot tbh), but the romance, characters and overall plot were great. I also felt like the inexperienced/innocent girl trope was done very well and felt realistic in this book. I thought Hawke was a great love interest and I loved all of the scenes between Poppy and Hawke. I did feel like what Hawke announced on the last page of the book seemed a little strange - but I’m not going to complain about it because I love them together.
But I NEED to know what happens next! I’m so sad that it will likely be a long wait until book #2 😣
Note: This book actually reminded me a lot of The Red Winter trilogy by Annette Marie, which I also highly recommend to everyone (Red Winter would be the YA version of this book).
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April 1, 2020
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April 1, 2020
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April 8, 2020
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April 9, 2020
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April 10, 2020
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5-stars
April 10, 2020
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romance
April 10, 2020
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high-fantasy
April 10, 2020
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favorites
December 15, 2021
– Shelved as:
personally-own
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Sep 20, 2020 06:34AM
Fab review, I've long heard great things about the underrated Red Winter series...may deff have to pick it up after this 👍
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Aoife - Bookish_Babbling wrote: "Fab review, I've long heard great things about the underrated Red Winter series...may deff have to pick it up after this 👍"Yes, you should definitely pick up the Red Winter series! It's more YA and not as steamy but there's definitely still romance. Very similar to FBAA but with a Japanese mythology twist.
Sounds fun 👍
woohoop spot on review! looking forward to reading book 3. 😍 also, in case youre looking for smth similar, my recs would be: Radiance & The Bridge Kingdom. 🙌
The second book is even better! 😉
Arini wrote: "woohoop spot on review! looking forward to reading book 3. 😍 also, in case youre looking for smth similar, my recs would be: Radiance & The Bridge Kingdom. 🙌"I've actually already read both of those and I did really enjoy them! I still need to read their sequels though so thanks for reminding me 😄
Lucie wrote: "The second book is even better! 😉"I agree, I thought the second one was even better! I actually read both of these books when they first came out so I don't know why this review is getting so much traction right now lol 🤷♀�
