Six Scorched Roses

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i don't think this book had to be quite as long as it was, but it didn't really drag or feel in excess so i'm not saying that critically, more as a lukewarm observation. The action sequences were breathtaking. I was in complete awe with the way it was written and they were such powerful scenes. I could not put the book down towards the end. It was so intense, I got goosebumps. I was everything I was meant to be. My father’s daughter. Victim and protégée. Greatest love and ruination.

There he is." He is perfect and I'd gladly bow for my powerful king. He is flawed and imperfect yet he tried his best for his kingdom even though they treated him as an usurper king and betrayed him. He proved all of them wrong. His growth in this book was commendable. He was so conflicted about his role as a Nightborn king and felt the burden of it because nobody was ready to accept him as a king but he appreciated his strengths and even his weakness and fought for his kingdom. And I loved how he was so patient with Oraya and made her feel safe and loved with his thoughtful and sweet gestures. i was desperate to have something to love. something to care about when i didn’t give a damn about myself.' To my gorgeous and lovely friends Lyra and Vio. I had so much fun reading this book with you 💗 we were crying, screaming and fang-girling in our group and It was chaotic but I enjoyed every minute of reading this book with you. Can't wait to do more BRs with you and I love both of you so much 🫶 Her connection with Vincent was simply emotional and heartbreaking, and aside from the romance, I think it was the thing I loved the most about this book. The things you’ve seen here have so tainted your image of me? I meant to give this place all my greatest achievements, my greatest ambitions. Instead, it became a monument to all my greatest mistakes.”Vale/Lilith - ”You have my sword, my blood, my life. I swear to you my loyalty and my service. It is my greatest honor to serve as your Head of War.” Crumbs! We truly only get the smallest bits from them, but I was hungry and in search of every scene or mention. Vale is not a man of many words, but when he speaks it means something (AND HE HAS MY FULL ATTENTION)! I craved more of them, but am grateful we got anything! They have my heart! i wanted it to be enjoyable but i dreaded reading up to 40% of this and this book is LONG. very, unnecessarily long. i love carissa's writing sm but i feel like she did way too much with this book and an editor was desperately needed.

i highly highly recommend this entire duet, because the writing, the characters, the plot and VINCENT my love are what made this so different from other fantasies. 💗 His shitty interludes made me wanna take a lovely lovely bath with my toaster. We already walked through his story in the first book, those chapters in this book were unnecessary not to mention annoying. OKAY WE GET IT, YOU RE SAD AND POETIC AND YOU CRY ALL THE TIME. WOO-HOO POOR RAIHN. It was also so weird that he kept thinking about his ex all the damn time. Like, are you sure you are in love with Oraya? Vincent had ruined me. He had saved me. He had loved me. He had stifled me. He had manipulated me. He had made me everything that I was. Everything that I could be." If the right trad deal came along, I would definitely be open to being hybrid. I think that in today's landscape, there is more opportunity than ever for authors to explore different business models and ways of shaping their careers. Overall, I really love being indie! The exploration of grief was excellent. The parts where we get to explore Oraya’s very complicated relationship with her father, Vincent, and see her go through the process of grieving and forgiving were beautifully written. The information and answers Oraya discovers about Vincent's past elevated this book for me. Seeing her begin to heal a little more with that knowledge made my heart so happy.Now she is left with no choice but to marry him to stand a chance against a kingdom full of vampires who want to kill her. This book captured a piece of my heart, made it beat, made it bleed. I laughed and cried along with it, fell in and out of love all over again and I loved every second of that feeling. I thought nothing could rival how good the first book was but this book came as a pleasant surprise. I can only imagine what delights the upcoming ones will bring! I mean, I have to talk about Raihn and Oraya. Have to. 🥹 Favourite new characters, without a doubt.

Raihn. My downfall and my most valuable supporter. My weakness and my strength. My worst enemy and the greatest love I had ever known.'

The way he always looked as if his heart would stop beating once again when Oraya even so much as got a scratch. We still don't know what he did to get that medicine to heal her wings. If he was mortal, I would have assumed he gave away half his lifetime for it.

Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood—the one hope for her town’s salvation. I loved the side characters, especially Mische, Vale and Lilith. Mische is sweet, bubbly, strong, loyal, and outgoing. I wished we saw more of Lilith and Vale, they are so cute together and I love them so much! And every time he called her his wife, even though she hated it, he knew how to get her all riled up. This tumultuous father-daughter relationship is the most complicated thing in this book and not just because of the convoluted personality of Vincent it was also because there were so many things he hid from her and how he left Oraya in the dark without any answers which made her question her own existence. He thought he wasn't capable of love because of all the cruelty he's witnessed in their world but Oraya changed that part of him the moment he saw her. He loved her fiercely and all consuming but he also manipulated her life. But that doesn't changes the fact that he tried and tried for her even though he failed because of his selfishness and fear. For humans and vampires, the rules of survival are the same: never trust, never yield, and always – always – guard your heart.With no trials to go through, the plot focuses a lot on the action and political side of the story, but it also gives us Oraya and Riahn's fans the thing we were left craving since the infamous end of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, which is, well...more Oraya and Riahn. Mische still more than has my entire heart. 💘 and with everything that went on in this book, all i'm going to say is - poor Mische. and 👀 i have so many questions with her omg. If I haven't already, this is where I’ll lose a lot of you... This is really about personal preference, but “There she is” does not do it for me. When this line was used in the first book, it neither delighted nor irritated me. But the amount of times it was repeated in this book took me out of moments between our main characters that I would’ve otherwise been very invested in. A couple of other repeated lines were a bit cringe, too, but I do think there are many beautiful quotes throughout this book.