A Shadow in the Ember
A prequel series set centuries before Blood and Ash, following a woman raised as a Maiden and promised to a god she intends to kill. More explicit than the parent series and more interested in the gods behind it. On the House's scale it rates 5 for spice (scorching), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 3 for craft. Readers who want the spiciest end of the scale with a god as the love interest.
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How it rates
- Author
- Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Series
- Flesh and Fire, book 1 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 5 out of 5, Scorching5/5 · Scorching
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 3/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 3/5
- Burn
- Instalove
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after · cliffhanger
- Setting
- Lasania, in the age of the Primals
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 320
On the spice rating Explicit throughout and unusually frequent even by the author's standards. How the scale works.
Content warnings explicit content, graphic violence, death, grooming.
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