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A review by booklybrittany
A Soul of Ash and Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout
4.0
Disclaimer: This world is one of my all time favorites and I don't think JLA could really write anything I didn't like at this point, so keep that in mind when reading this review as I *try* my hardest to be as objective as possible.
This book will likely be considered the Tower of Dawn of the FBAA world, if you understand what I mean (except I'd read from Casteel's POV over Chaol's any damn day). Was it completely necessary? No. Did it pick up after a pretty big ending of the previous book, leaving us on our seats until the next one, without really giving us anything new? Yes. However, it was fun and I think pretty important to see many of the scenes from the first book through Cas's POV (the night of the Red Pearl, the attack during the Rite, the death of Duke Teerman, all of the events at New Haven, and his journey falling in love with Poppy). It was well paced and gave a lot of missing information that I think helps understand the story much better.
The last chapter was probably the most exciting, and in typical JLA fashion, she left us hanging off a very dramatic cliff. I'll be waiting at the edge of my seat again for the next book. We've spent a majority of these books processing Poppy's ancestry, but this book left me theorizing over Casteel's ancestry in a very unexpected way. To say I'm excited for where this is going is a huge understatement.
This book will likely be considered the Tower of Dawn of the FBAA world, if you understand what I mean (except I'd read from Casteel's POV over Chaol's any damn day). Was it completely necessary? No. Did it pick up after a pretty big ending of the previous book, leaving us on our seats until the next one, without really giving us anything new? Yes. However, it was fun and I think pretty important to see many of the scenes from the first book through Cas's POV (the night of the Red Pearl, the attack during the Rite, the death of Duke Teerman, all of the events at New Haven, and his journey falling in love with Poppy). It was well paced and gave a lot of missing information that I think helps understand the story much better.
The last chapter was probably the most exciting, and in typical JLA fashion, she left us hanging off a very dramatic cliff. I'll be waiting at the edge of my seat again for the next book. We've spent a majority of these books processing Poppy's ancestry, but this book left me theorizing over Casteel's ancestry in a very unexpected way. To say I'm excited for where this is going is a huge understatement.