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From Ashes by Molly McAdams

devansbooklife's review against another edition

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4.0

I really enjoyed this book. Mostly I was glad that Cassidy finally got a happy ending. I was angry with Ty throughout most of the book. But I applauded him when he called Gage as they were leaving for California.

megan_elise's review

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1.0

MAKE ME VOMIT! I don't think I have HATED a book more than this one. It enraged me. I could barely finish it. Even months after reading it, my hands shake as I write this review.

I was disgusted with this book. Cassidy is one character I would like to drop kick in the face. (I promise I am not a violent person). She is not a good person. I have actual hate for a fictional character. She is wishy washy. She is not strong. She is not brave. If anything, she is manipulative and a coward.

Tyler, dont get me started. I refuse to speak of him!

Gage: Gah he deserves so much more. He deserves actual love. Cassidy is not his true love. She cant be, true love means more than the insignificance she brought to their relationship. I lost respect for him. I felt so bad for him. To me, he settled for her.

The story is melodramatic. Its pathetic. Their world is unrealistic. The time frame is laughable. The THREE LOVE INTERESTS with the ONE AND ONLY FEMALE is exhausting, disgusting and highly deplorable.

If this had been the first book I had ever read, I would be scarred. Don't get me started on the fact that this theme (love triangles, love quadruplets) seems to be a repeated theme for this author. It gets old.

echoingbooks's review against another edition

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4.0

This was really sweet and entertaining seeing what they would do to be together. I like this book of Molly and I don’t normally like love triangles.


“Whoa, got it bad for your cousin's girl already, huh? You gonna try to get with that?"
I eyed Cassi in Ty's arms and shook my head as I brought my beer up to take another long drink. "Nope." Yes, yes, I am.”



The moment Cassi climbed out of Ty’s truck in Texas both she and Gage felt some weird connection that they can’t leave alone. The moment he felt the connection he wanted to be with Cassi but his cousin did not help him because Ty wanted to be with Cassi to. Cassi on the other had just wanted to be with Gage so when Ty thought she might run to Gage instead of him he started lying to both of them about each other’s feelings. Gage thought Cassi was in love with Ty and that they were dating and Cassi thought Gage did not like at all. Ty got so jealous of them that he somehow nearly lost Cassi but that pushing her away pushed her to Gage and they started dating. They both found out they loved each other and that Ty was lying to them. One night at a partying something bad happens and she runs back to Ty not because of what Gage did but because she has to go back to California. She left Gage’s place in the middle of the night with just a note explaining absolutely nothing when Ty found out about her leaving without saying good bye he called Gage to let him know. Ty told him to give her just some space she will come back to him.


“Jake looked at us like we should know this already. "SMB? Sandwich-Making Bitch.”


In California she met this Detective Conner Green and somehow he helped her trough he past and she really liked Conner but she loved Gage. So after a few week in California she went back to Gage but that day she flied back to Texas he went to California to get her and he just about missed her. He thought she left him for good so he went back to her ranch and felt shattered. Everyone was still hoping she will come back. When she got back to their apartment she noticed everything is gone so she got a new car went to pick up 2 good friends hers and went to the ranch. Everyone was so happy that she was back and that she chose to be with Gage for the rest of her life. I adored the ending it was sweet and I noticed in the book how much Gage actually loved her. I really did enjoy the book but still my favorite series of Molly’s is Forgiving Lies.


“She nodded against me. “Do you need me to do anything?”
I didn’t need a thing from her, but I wanted everything. I wanted her to leave Tyler, to love me, to want to live here with me for the rest of our lives. I wanted so damn much.
”Just go back to sleep, then enjoy the rest of the day with the girls. I’ll be back tonight.”
”I’ll be waiting her for you.”
Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath in and held it. if only she knew what she did to me.”

thebookhaze's review against another edition

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1.0

I did not realize that this was the same author who wrote Taking Chances. This is how much I wanted to forget her. I HATED Taking Chances, and if I had known that this book was by the same author, I never would've started reading it. As it is, I wasted almost 4 hours of my life I will never ever get back.

Yes, almost 4 hours, and there was still about 40% of the book left to go! I wanted to finish it because I'd invested so much time on it and it was hard to cut my losses, but when I reached the part with the policeman, I just gave up trying to make excuses to redeem the story.

So many things wrong with it, oh where do I begin?

*****SPOILERS AHEAD*****

Characters that don't stay true to their characters and make no sense to me.

SpoilerTyler, for example, spend 11 years taking care of Cassi, and then once he got her out of her abusive home, started lying to her and manipulating her? Then he pressures her into becoming his girlfriend and having sex with him. When she rejects him because she's not ready, he gets mad and goes out and brings a girl back to have sex with, in front of her! Kicks her out of the house into the freezing cold, without a phone or coat or anything! Which causes her to freeze so badly that she ends up in the hospital.

So then Gage and Cassi ends up together, and Tyler of course hates Gage's guts, and does everything he can to break them up. While Gage and Tyler are still going out to breakfast together. Of course. *rolls eyes*

Then one night at a party, Gage and Tyler are fighting, and other guys get involved because, *everyone* is in love with Cassi! So Gage accidentally hurts Cassi, and drama happens, blah blah blah...

Gage and Cassi are now on rocky grounds but they did not break up. They're just trying to work things out. Tyler calls Cassi in the middle of the same night, telling her that her house has been burned down and her parents might be in there. So Cassi leaves with Tyler, leaving a vague message for Gage that makes him think they're over, because of course.

Funnily enough, that's when Tyler suddenly decides to be a good guy and calls Gage to let him know that Cassi is with him because her parents' house have burned down, and telling Gage to hang in there because Cassi loves him.

OMG, make up your mind, Tyler! Do you want them together or not?!

That's not the only problem though. After 11 years of abusing Cassi every.single.day, and even sending her a text message on her 18th birthday after having taken $100K from Cassi's bank account that her father left for her and actually saying "Happy you-killed-your father day" to Cassi, her mother decides to turn over a new leaf, get sober, changes her will to leave everything to Cassi, writes her a heartfelt apology, and kills herself and her husband, who had also been abusing Cassi every day for 11 years!

People don't change like that! No matter how much you want them to! Real life isn't that convenient!

Still, I tried to get past all those things. I really tried. But when Cassi started making out with Connor after having read her mother's will, because they had this "connection", while she was still with Gage. I just... I just can't anymore.


I read some other reviews and apparently it gets worse! So yeah, I might've lost 4 hours, but I'm glad I didn't lose more.

I will remember the author's name this time, so I know never to read another book she writes.

christinabooktreasures's review

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5.0

This author never disappoints. This is an emotional roller coaster full of pain, healing of, love and every feeling in between. She is one of my instabuy authors because I can count on her to keep me emotionally engaged throughout the entire book. 

k_wall's review against another edition

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5.0

Cassidy has two men her life that she has ever trusted, her deceased father and Tyler, her best friend. Tyler and Cassidy have always been very close friends. So close that most people would mistake their relationship for something more then just friends. That is why Tyler packs all of Cassidy's things and takes her to Texas with him when he leaves California for college.

Right when Tyler and Cassidy get to Texas, Cassidy meets their new roommate, Gage. He is Tyler's cousin, and Cassidy is immediately drawn to him. Little does she know that Gage feels the same way. She also doesn't know that Tyler wants to be more then friends and he starts to lie to both Gage and Cassidy to keep them apart. Finally, Tyler does something that drives Cassidy to Gage for good. Cassidy does still have to face her past though, and for a short time had to leave Texas to deal with everything going on.

I can't believe how much I loved this book. I have read lots of love stories and stories of missing out on chances, but I have never read something so beautifully written. Molly McAdams just draws in her reader. She knows how to create the characters to keep people reading. This is her second book, and I didn't want to put it down. I am currently reading her first book, "Taking Chances." This book is also amazing so far! I recommend this author to anyone.

beastreader's review against another edition

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2.0

This is another book that is on my TBR pile that I decided to tackle. I have read another book by this author and really enjoyed it. OK, so I know the subject of physical and emotional abuse is a really hard subject matter. It does not matter who you are...male or female. People need to be protected. So I could understand Cassidy's shyness and even her close relationship with Tyler. He was her protector and knight in shining armor. However I was getting frustrated by Cassidy running to Ty when she knew what his feelings were towards her and she did not return them. She needed to just tell Ty it was not going to happen and move on. This back and forth game, she, Ty and Gage were playing grew old. It got so old that after about chapter 10 I got so mad that I literally threw down the book and refused to go back to it. I mean come on, there three were in college but they acted like children. Also, I don't really care that Ty and Gage had "hard ons" for Cassidy. In fact it was a "turn off" that this had to even be mentioned in the book. Not one of my favorite books by this author.

hpitcher15's review against another edition

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3.0

2.5
I think if this book hadn't been so dragged out I would liked it better. I'm not really sure what I thought about it but Cassidy's relationships with the guys in her life were kind of messed up. It definitely could of been a lot better

casimoore's review against another edition

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4.0

Good book. Tyler was a manipulative person that I did not like though. He wanted Cassidy to be dependent on him .. unhealthy.

janceetabacnic's review against another edition

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3.0

Story was really compelling, but wasn't written as well as I would like. Still, it made me laugh, cry, and root for a happy ending, so it was pretty enjoyable.