The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia Book 2)

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They argued and bantered like they did in the last book and their romance was angsty and emotional but they also fought side by side against the bloodborns. If I’m being honest, the betrayal never felt like a true betrayal. I think it just allowed for a certain character to ignore where the true betrayal actually came from and the way Carissa Broadbent dissected that? Top tier. His shitty interludes made me wanna take a lovely lovely bath with my toaster. We already walked through his story in the first book, those chapters in this book were unnecessary not to mention annoying. OKAY WE GET IT, YOU RE SAD AND POETIC AND YOU CRY ALL THE TIME. WOO-HOO POOR RAIHN. It was also so weird that he kept thinking about his ex all the damn time. Like, are you sure you are in love with Oraya? The cliche but always good ~ character looking at scenery and complimenting it while the other character agrees and is looking at them instead i wanted it to be enjoyable but i dreaded reading up to 40% of this and this book is LONG. very, unnecessarily long. i love carissa's writing sm but i feel like she did way too much with this book and an editor was desperately needed.

Afraid of you and what you could do to me. Afraid of the world that could kill you so easily. Afraid of myself, gifted with another fragile heart that I know I cannot keep. I love Oraya, she is strong, brave, fierce, sassy, tenacious, stubborn and will do anything to protect Raihn and the people she cares about. Oraya's character development was excellent, she grew so much and learned more about herself and her powers. I'm so proud of Oraya, she went through a great deal of hardship and grief in this book, but she came out the other side stronger. Hello? What day is it? What year is it? Where am I? I feel like I just emerged from a Nyaxia cave and need to be reintegrated into society. Read this nonstop.His act was meticulous. He embodied the role of conqueror king just as easily as he had embodied the role of human in the pub, and the role of bloodthirsty contestant, and the role of my lover, and the role of my kidnapper.

It is RELEASE DAY! It's honestly a bit surreal. This was one of the hardest books I've ever written for a number of reasons, from health issues to deadline stress, but the biggest of which was that I so desperately wanted to make sure that it does Oraya's story justice for the (totally unexpected) huge number of readers who connected with her in book 1. I read the Serpent and the Wings of Night earlier this year and absolutely loved it and had really high hopes for this one- and it DEFINITELY lived up to them bc I freaking devoured this book 😩😩 It's not QUITE as good as the first one but it was still SUCH a good sequel 🤭🤭❤️❤️ Yours," I ground out. "It's yours." My blood. My body. My soul. I had given her all of that a long time ago. I even had given her my life. And I'd do it all again. I was everything I was meant to be. My father’s daughter. Victim and protégée. Greatest love and ruination.First I was wondering how the author would keep me interested as much as in the first book without the deadly competition at the heart of the story. I am a big fan of competitions in books so I dreaded the sequel. I'm just going to cut straight to the chase here: it rubs me the wrong way that Oraya never actually tries to get revenge on Raihn. Never. She talks a big game, and it made me so excited; the first book really grabbed my attention in large part because the cliffhanger suggested she'd be fighting tooth and nail to make Raihn pay. I was so here for that. Instead... we get nothing, beyond a half-hearted attempt at the start of the book to spearhead a military ambush. After that, there really is nothing. She talks the talk - at one point, she agrees to ally with Raihn, thinking that she'll use it to gain the upper hand - but I was totally unsurprised when she proceeded to never devote a second of attention to actually getting the upper hand. She spends the rest of the plot going along with this plans.