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Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

21 reviews

j_day's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

marleyreads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Violence

arcanewolf's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

msalexnicole's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

I really liked this short book. You can honestly read it in a day and it was a cute set up for the next book in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Sexual content and Violence

Minor: Sexual assault

kmizzzle's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I swear, there's crack in the pages of this book. There's no way a story this short (it is a novella, after all) can make me feels all the feels in less than 200 pages. But it did. Carissa is a magician. A wonderful magician. And I'm here for it!

I hope this isn't the last I see if Vale and Lilith, because I. Need. More!! 

I think my favorite nickname ever was Vale's for Lilith - mouse. 🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

llcardenas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual assault

coveredinivy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, and War

boba_nbooks's review against another edition

4.75

Spice Rating: 🌶️ / 5

This was the perfect novella to read in between The Serpent and the Wings of Night and its sequel, The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.

Six Scorched Roses is a novella that follows Lillith--a human whose town is riddled with a rapidly-spreading plague. In order to find a cure, Lillith decides to turn against the god of her town and seek assistance from one of Nyaxia's children--a vampire named Lord Vale. Lillith promises Vale six special roses in exchange for six vials of his blood so she might try to find a cure for the plague. In the process, the two find out that they have much more in common than the world has told them they do.

I'm currently reading The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, and I loved being able to peek into Lillith's and Vale's story before seeing them appear in the sequel. Carissa Broadbent writes such beautiful love stories, and I'm so glad she added this novella to the Crowns of Nyaxia universe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, and War

savannahsshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.25

I really enjoyed this novella time will tell if I’ll be happy I read it before book 2 but right now I’m glad I picked it up I really enjoyed Vale and Lilith and their story was interesting and fun! Loved the gods element and the mystery of it all 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual assault

v_____'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I will never shut up praising how Cassandra Broadbent describes things, especially Gods, until forever 🙏🙏



Plus: THIS is my new life motto now:😌

... about two centuries ago, I decided that I would never again do anything I didn’t want to do. And I don’t want to...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment