The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King
The aftermath of the Kejari, with a kingdom to hold and a relationship that has to be rebuilt from what the first book broke. More political, more explicit, and more willing to sit in grief than its predecessor. On the House's scale it rates 5 for spice (scorching), 5 for how much of the book is the romance, and 4 for craft. Readers who want a second book that deepens the first rather than repeating it.
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How it rates
- Author
- Carissa Broadbent
- Series
- Crowns of Nyaxia, book 2 · series ongoing
- Spice
- Spice 5 out of 5, Scorching5/5 · Scorching
- Romance
- 5/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 4/5
- Darkness
- 5/5
- Writing craft
- 4/5
- Burn
- Medium
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- The House of Night, amid a war of succession
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 624
On the spice rating Explicit and frequent, with the physical relationship carrying much of the reconciliation. How the scale works.
Content warnings graphic violence, grief, gore, explicit content.
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