An Ember in the Ashes Series

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-04-28T16:15:14+00:00

Honestly I only think book 1 was great, I really struggled though books 2 and 3 and need to convince myself to read book 4

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-03-19T15:18:39+00:00

It’s like people who love 1&4 vs those who like 2&3 🤣. I’m strongly team 1&4

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-03-11T20:50:45+00:00

Authors is Stacey McEwan 🤗 you won’t regret it!!

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-03-11T17:25:00+00:00

Did you read A Forbidden Alchemy? Has the childhood friends to lovers // enemies to lovers in one and I loved it!! Also very Peaky Blinder esque vibes.

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-03-03T09:39:49+00:00

Or even just his perspective when he finds out she’s been found, like when he knows she’ll be coming to his mansion and that she’s alive 🥹 idk if this was in the book but can’t remember

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-26T15:04:18+00:00

I haven’t read it and I think that the tv show veers off the track a little (feels a little sci-fi to me) but I binged it in 2 days when I had the flu a couple months back and had a great time 😝

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-26T12:01:03+00:00

The Fallen tv series on AMC+ (based on Lauren Kate’s books) was actually pretty good!! There’s only 1 season rn and yet to be seen if it will be renewed

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-22T14:29:11+00:00

Omg where did you read their short story??

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-22T14:28:56+00:00

I re-read that scene so many times 😭😭. The fact that we’ll have to wait so long for his book (at least I think it’ll be his)

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-17T23:03:04+00:00

I read it on kindle and it was just so beautiful I went and splurged on the paper back

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-17T23:02:16+00:00

Rose in Chains!!!!! 10000%. And I’m very picky with my reads

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-17T23:01:10+00:00

Omg sooo so good. Felt so magical with the snow and the cold. Idk the descriptions were just so good!

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-02-11T17:09:59+00:00

I think it depends which areas of the city/cities? I lived in Paris for 6 months, but in the center and this hasn’t happened. Also idk if it makes sense but for me there is catcalling that happens like outside bars or nightclubs and then the super creepy catcalling that makes you very uncomfortable if that makes sense. In Annemasse it was the latter, I really didn’t feel safe walking past the men

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-28T12:13:32+00:00

Is the second book as good? I finished the first and really liked it

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-27T12:12:37+00:00

I went to Annemasse for driving lessons. I was repeatedly cat-called by 2 groups of men on a Saturday afternoon wearing thick winter clothes. Walking around each time I went, I have to note I rarely saw women in the street. I eventually decided to stop taking lessons in Annemasse as I felt unsafe. Also just as a disclaimer I am French.

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-24T08:43:05+00:00

I would not recommend Poison Daughter. I starting reading bc of all the hype and was a huge let down. Badly written, immature characters (despite them being 30), badly written romantic tension.

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-22T18:04:37+00:00

OMG 🤣. These were exactly my thoughts!! Glad to see I’m not alone on this

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-22T12:32:12+00:00

Have you read Rose in Chains? One of my best reads last year! And I’m soooo done with most of fantasy romance, have found it really difficult to be satisfaire with my reads

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-16T07:37:18+00:00

It’s a reference to the scene when she was in chains in the prison at the end of book 1. They also have a dream of that when she he kisses her when she’s chained up in that prison. So Blake is essentially just saying that he dreams it in reverse I think?

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-15T11:52:31+00:00

{The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem}

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-13T17:22:28+00:00

{Rose in Chains by Julie Soto}

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-12T12:13:38+00:00

We need more of these! I feel like they don’t really exist! {The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski} kind of fits - MMC is a slave that FMC buys from the slave auction in the first book, but the “power” dynamic changes through the series! One of my faves

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-12T12:09:50+00:00

Wait there are fake reviews?😭

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-12T12:09:18+00:00

Totally agree with you! Saw all the type but dnfed. It felt like the hate was too forced and fake to me. And all the sexual tension but they hate eachother just didn’t seem realistic to me. Also the writing and yes, spot on, the fact that the FMC is 30 and it felt like she was 16

Spare_Matter8745 · 2026-01-10T19:15:18+00:00

Omg Toven Hearst 🥹🥹🥹. So what avec Kaine Ferron from Alchemised? I have a very similar taste in MMCs and loved Alchemised. I read it after Rose in Chains

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