During the day: If you have a flexible schedule, you may find it helpful to take breaks during the day to read a book. For example, when they were escaping after Oraya fell in the 1st battle, and they were suddenly in Oraya's mom's homeland, which is supposed to be far away. Oraya's character development was excellent, she grew so much and learned more about herself and her powers.

usually, i have a huuuuge love/hate relationship with flashbacks because more than half the time, i don't mesh with them. Not only was this couple's romance perfectly complete, but there's still so much to learn and explore with the characters and the shattered/new beginning world. Full of heartbreak, redemption, bloody intrigue, and heart-pounding action, The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King is the gutting second installment of the Crowns of Nyaxia series, and the conclusion of the Nightborn Duet - perfect for fans of From Blood and Ash and A Court of Thorns and Roses. There were a couple of surprising twists, but one important reveal was so easy to guess that by the time our main characters realised what happened, I barely reacted. Even though I really liked parts of The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King, my rating reflects my feelings about it as a whole.I appreciate the fact that they spend a lot of time together, plotting, arguing and getting to know each other for real, flaws and all, this time. but then, she rose from the ashes and then slowly claimed herself, and everything that was meant to be hers. Starting with the characters- I LOVE THEM ❤️❤️ I feel like we've gone on such a journey with them even in only 2 books and I've grown to love them smm 😩 I really enjoyed seeing more of them and especially seeing their character development after what happened at the end of TSTWON. in book one, we were thrown straight into the thick of things and that took a lot more time so as to digest, to truly take in.

My girl was in the thick of it, between trying to reconcile her grief with the passing of her father and his lies about her entire existence and her feelings of betrayal from Raihn and then add in the responsibility of being the heir and leader to her people, something she never thought would land on her shoulders, my little serpent handled the “there she is” to the “you’re safe” man why was i tearing up 🥲 the writing in this book is like no other. Raihn's actions in this book resulted in the death of a significant portion of his own people because they turned on him. honestly it took me a moment to remember all the places and where exactly we were, because i didn't reread the first book before getting into this lmao. But to do so, she’ll need to harness an ancient power, intertwined with her father’s greatest secrets.

In case you've read it already, don't care about spoilers and/or about the book in general, welcome to my review. I can't wait to continue these books bc Carissa Broadbent is so masterfully building such an amazing and epic series and I can't wait to see what happens next bc that ending and the foreshadowing of the threat that is definitely going to come has my anxiety through the roof!