A Light in the Flame made me obsessed with Jadis and Reaver!! ik they are kids and basically baby drakkens, but i ship them so much. 😭 Jadis being a little menace and chasing Reaver around, while he is so grumpy and annoyed at her, but still secretly cares a lot about her? 😭😭😭 i love them. 🥺👉👈 their scenes were so cute in this book and it makes my heart hurt for Reaver and Nektas, knowing that Jadis is missing in the FBAA series. i need Jadis and Reaver to get together!!! We get the most beautiful and steamiest smut in this book. It's so obvious how the deal they made ''pleasure for the sake of pleasure'' is definitely not at all about that but something more. I really liked the fact that Ash didn't dwell too much about Sera's betrayal...he truly accepted her reasons why and understood where she was coming from and how desperate she must have been to want to fulfill the plan. He kisses her even though he said it would never happen again, he touches her and cares for her in ways he shouldn't want to, but you cannot help but realise how kind he is despite what he thinks of himself to let something that massive go without truly feeling resentment. Book Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Fantasy Romance, Fiction, High Fantasy, Magic, New Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Vampires Sera changed in this book, becoming softer at times, and more assertive at others. She is still self-sacrificing, and it broke my heart to see how she felt like she had to sacrifice herself to help others or she would have no more purpose in life. And every time someone made her feel important because of herself and not because of the embers or because of her purpose, I wanted to hug her. Her despair and vulnerability were more apparent to everyone in this book, making her softer, but still deadly, and the way Nyktos and Nektas were there to support her was amazing. It was heartbreaking to see how she never had a real choice in her life and still didn’t really have one now, even though she didn’t feel like she was only a weapon honed to a single purpose anymore… All she’s ever wanted was to be free to make her own decisions and live her life, and she couldn’t even get that because of the embers she’s holding. We get a little easter egg about the Balfour family which as FBAA readers know is Poppy's last name.

Did I expect him to say something else? That I mattered? To him? And that he cared for me, even though he couldn’t love? After what I’d plotted? I didn’t.also that ending?! I don’t know what to think anymore 😭 the fact that kolis knew the whole time that sera had the embers of life and all their planning was for nothing. i really don’t know how sera is going to escape kolis They provided comic relief and heart-melting moments, and seeing Nyktos and Nektas interact with them was just swoon-worthy (I mean, who doesn’t like a sexy man with a caring daddy vibe?). I really hope that there will be more of Reaver-butt and Jadis in the next book because I cannot get enough of them. PDF / EPUB File Name: A_Shadow_in_the_Ember_-_Jennifer_L_Armentrout.pdf, A_Shadow_in_the_Ember_-_Jennifer_L_Armentrout.epub Rise.” Ash’s voice was deeper, louder. A powerful thunder. “Rise for the One who is born of Blood and Ash, the Light and the Fire, and the Brightest Moon.” He said, and my eyes cut to him as my breath caught. Listening to the audiobook instead of reading the book made Sera’s inner monologues feel even longer and more repetitive. I will leave my 4-star rating because it’s the rating I gave the physical copy of the book, but I would give 3 or 3.5 stars to the audiobook because it felt SO. LONG. 😖

Nektas is a Drakan, and Drakans are a species of shapeshifters. They kind of look like dragons. Their job is to protect Illesium. Healing: Like her granddaughter, Penellaphe Balfour, Seraphena has the power to heal. Due to her gift, Seraphena is able to take away other people's pain by reaching out to them. This gift is due to her having the ember of life, given to the Mierel line by Nyktos' father. Without warning, an image flashed in my mind. The silver-haired woman standing before another as the stars fell from the sky, her hands balled into fists. Her words came from my lips, "I will not let you harm him or any of my friends." - Poppy (Chapter 41, The Crown of Gilded Bones)). It's release day! Let's see if this book will win me over after TWOTQ. I'll be reading it on the weekend but to everyone starting today: happy reading!We find in the last chapters of the novel, that Sir Holland is actually not human. As it turns out, he is a Spirit of Fate. He is like a god who never ages.