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Six Scorched Roses by Carissa Broadbent

15 reviews

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

greyskale's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

I adored this little book so much! I related to Lilith, I loved her struggles with human connection. She is very clearly autistic and I love the representation as an autistic person myself. 

I loved the blossoming love between Vale and Lilith and all the little ways he understood her when everyone else did not. Watching their relationship grow was truly something else. I loved these two so much 🖤

It had a satisfying, heart warming ending with a bittersweet tinge. Can’t wait to read more about these two. 

The only reason this is not a full 5 star read is the lack of world building, I had a hard time visualizing where this all took place. But the characters and story were great! 

Vale: I like her, I like that autistic woman

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

There is a passage about a needle that made me cringe at the description.

there is a part where Lilith is attacked on the road, the attackers tell her to remove her dress, it is implied they wanted to assault her. Nothing happens and she is saved before her dress is removed

Mentions of rape

boba_nbooks's review

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

shinyfox's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Rape

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.25

for a novella this was so good!! normally novellas feel so pointless to me but this had fully fleshed out characters & plot and i am very intrigued as to how it will connect with the rest it the story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault and War

junixthebibliotaph's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and War

nova_lilias's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Death of parent and War

lucindahoi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Blood, and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual content, Xenophobia, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Body horror, Gore, Xenophobia, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

wildflower_magic's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

Another fantastic read by Clarissa Broadbent! This book is a novella following characters in the Crowns of Nyaxia series. It can be read after book 1, but I read it after book 2 and think that was a good time as I knew the characters well and this novella provided interesting backstory. I love the characters. The main character, Lilith, presents with many neurodivergent traits in a respectful and accurate way. This novella follows her journey as she tries to protect her loved ones from a god's curse that was placed upon her town. She decides she needs some help from the broody vampire who lives outside of town, thus leading her to create a deal with Vale. Vale is 100% book boyfriend vibes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Sexual assault and War