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From Blood and Ash

Auteur(s): Jennifer L. Armentrout
Narrateur(s): Stina Nielsen
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Description

Captivating and action-packed, From Blood and Ash is a sexy, addictive, and unexpected fantasy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Laura Thalassa.

A Maiden...

Chosen from birth to usher in a new era, Poppy’s life has never been her own. The life of the Maiden is solitary. Never to be touched. Never to be looked upon. Never to be spoken to. Never to experience pleasure. Waiting for the day of her Ascension, she would rather be with the guards, fighting back the evil that took her family, than preparing to be found worthy by the gods. But the choice has never been hers.

A Duty...

The entire kingdom’s future rests on Poppy’s shoulders, something she’s not even quite sure she wants for herself. Because a Maiden has a heart. And a soul. And longing. And when Hawke, a golden-eyed guard honor bound to ensure her Ascension, enters her life, destiny and duty become tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and tempts her with the forbidden.

A Kingdom...

Forsaken by the gods and feared by mortals, a fallen kingdom is rising once more, determined to take back what they believe is theirs through violence and vengeance. And as the shadow of those cursed draws closer, the line between what is forbidden and what is right becomes blurred. Poppy is not only on the verge of losing her heart and being found unworthy by the gods, but also her life when every blood-soaked thread that holds her world together begins to unravel.

©2020 Jennifer L. Armentrout (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Dreamy, twisty, steamy escapism. Take me back!" --New York Times bestseller Wendy Higgins 

“Jennifer Armentrout has the power to control my emotions with every word she writes. From swooning to crying to racing through the pages to find out what happens next, I couldn't stop reading about Hawke and Poppy, and you won't be able to either.” --Brigid Kemmerer, New York Times bestselling author of A Curse So Dark and Lonely 

"Narrator Stina Nielsen enthralls with this sumptuous romance, which highlights her ability to thoroughly immerse listeners in its fantasy world.… Nielsen employs a wide range of inflections, from the warm, breathless tone of the heroine to the appealing accent of Hawke, the love interest, combining them in the sensual scenes they share." --AudioFile Magazine, An Earphones Award Winner 

Featured Article: 9 of the Best Romance Fantasy Audiobooks to Fall in Love With

Seeking an escape from the routine of everyday life? A great romance fantasy novel can sweep you off your feet and carry you away from the mundane. A powerful love story can transport you into a captivating fairy tale or a steamy affair.

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HOLY BURNING HELL

okay, okay, okay. thIS BOOK IS FREAKING AMAZING AND I CANT EVEN HANDLE IT. Narration is on point. And the characters are just *chiefs kiss* brilliant. Let’s start with Poppy — badass supreme. And Hawke? Well, he could literally step on my hand and I’d thank him for it. And just UGH. it’s beautiful y’all. just pure beautiful. i have planted my flag on this hill and will glad die on it fighting off the craven. it just has so many twists and turns and every time you think it’s going to end, something else happens to make my brain explode. it’s spooky, sexy - like daaaamn i need to fan myself, full of mystery, scenes that make you so made you want to chuck your phone or just do something violent (which is always what our glorious Poppy turns to) or scenes that make you melt into a freaking puddle or scenes that make you laugh uncontrollably because gatdamn Hawke is hilarious. I love it. wish i lived in this series. and yep. that’ll bout do it. NOW RELEASE THE SECOND ONE. thank you so much.

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So far, a complete waste of a credit

Thirteen chapters in and I am still waiting for this bad ass heroine as stated in reviews to show herself. I am waiting for the story to begin. I am seriously bored. I would be more interested if she was still sneaking out, helping some and killing the “turned” or even if this was an actual romance, but instead I am currently suffering through a young female’s tormented life. Living in a place where she is supposed to be cherished but instead she is mentally and physically abused, but has no voice. Is isolated and who has a serious case of lack of confidence finding security in a false sense of bravado and by touching a knife she carries under her clothing at all times.

I think the narration should have been done by a younger female, it was very off putting to have what was a more mature voice speaking the words of an 18 year old. I also find the narration more monotone than anything, which means at times an entire chapter skips by and I have heard nothing....meaning I have had to skip back a number of times. With that said, I have skipped forward quite a few times as well, like the whipping scene, no need to subject myself to that, and the guard and the arrow scene, your guard is shot and tells you to run away but instead you run towards him and break down?? Self preservation is obviously not one of her skills. It made no sense to me that a woman could turn herself off and easily kill a person with a knife through the brain (mercy killing or not) yet goes into shock and nearly has a breakdown seeing someone shot with an arrow. Pick a side author, cannot have it both ways.

Unless the rest of this book is explosive, the next book in this series will not be read.

Maybe I am not far enough in the book but I don’t understand how the abuse works into this story. I help people with self confidence, anxiety and moving forward after abuse so right now this book rubs me the wrong way, not to mention the LACK of the romance aspect. I wanted to throw a paranormal, fantasy, romance between language learning, true crime podcasts and murder mysteries...I obviously chose the wrong book!

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Interesting Setting, Okay Romance

The setting and world could be a good Dark Fantasy setting if we get to see more of it. The Romance feels a little quick and sudden. It does feel like the world building and character development played backseat to the smutt. It was enjoyable although not as deep as I was hoping.

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  • 2020-10-24

Simply addictive and amazing.

Excellent narration. Excellent story. Couldn't put it down! Fierce strong female character and the love interest is fantastic.

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amazing narrator

story was very gripping, a few predictable plot twists and outcomes for certain characters but overall enjoyed. Stina could read me an article about the mechanics of gastric bypass and I'd be enthralled. favorite narrator by far.

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Highly recommend!

Absoutely amazing! Probably the best story I heard in a long time. Well done writer and story teller!

The story completely takes you right there in the moment of a forbidden love, action, and fantasy!

I can't wait to buy the second book!

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Brilliant as a horror novel, terrible for romance

This book is brilliant.


For the first twenty-five chapters, I hated this book. Despised it. It was trivial; it was uncomfortable; and it was desperately unsatisfying. Both of the main characters were trope-ridden abominations, and their relationship seemed dangerously unhealthy.

Then, it happened. The secrets hidden throughout the book started to merge and form this genius, captivating political scheme. The scenes that made me uncomfortable were subtly arranged that way by the author, foreshadowing the reveal, and both main characters really were <i>too good to be true</i>

You can tell that Jennifer L. Armentrout spent many, many hours revising her outline and fleshing out her plot. All of the little details and hidden meanings make me want to re-read this again immediately, just so I can appreciate how much work and time the author put into this novel.

Only rating it 3 stars though for some of the concerning non-consensual scenes in the book. it works as a horror novel, but not a fantasy romance novel (like advertised).

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I loved this story!

I absolutely loved this book, it reminds me of when I was young and I loved books like house of night, this is definitely for more mature readers and right up my alley!

I can't wait to start book 2!!

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Great Story Character Twist and Narration

Considering I am not a fan of books more over audiobooks, I enjoyed every bits of this audiobook, the story was astonishingly interesting. The character development was so good, I got attached to every single one of them. I have never been bored while listening, the narrator does a great job at mimicking voice and making sound like I am in the story even when I am washing the dishes or so. The twist of the story makes it far more interesting. Definitely much recommended !

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WOW!!!

This book is a must buy. the story and the narration is amazing. BUY THIS BOOK!

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  • 2022-10-13

Adultes, passez votre chemin.

Je ne pense pas être la cible de ce lire. C'est une histoire qui pourrait beaucoup plaire à des adolescents ou jeunes adultes.

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  • 2023-03-14

Belle voix et belle performance

J’avais déjà lu le livre plusieurs fois, j’adore l’histoire et je voulais donner sa chance au livre audio. C’était super. L’actrice a vraiment une superbe voix et qui correspond parfaitement à Poppy ♥️

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  • 2022-01-07

definitely worth reading

I was hesitating at first cause even though this book had been heavily recommended to me I just didn't want to read yet another fantasy bordering cliche story. Well, let me tell you I got absolutely obsessed. I'm really glad that I've bought it anyway.
The main character is amazing and the author really made something special about the general atmosphere of the story. It's exciting, intriguing, a bit sad and VERY sexy.
Definitely worth reading
I have to mention that the narrator is doing an amazing job, the intensity she's able to give to the words sometimes is just incredible.

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  • 2020-12-03

Binge worthy! Excellent story and plot.

I loved this! The performance and story were binge worthy. The characters were delectable. Thank you!

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  • 2020-10-09

Great book!

I have been looking for a book like this to listen to for a while. The narrator is great, making the main character and the story deep. I like her badass side (not too much, just perfect). There is action, romance, fun and suspense.

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  • 2020-09-22

Hum - just hum

I actually really enjoyed this book, I just don’t really know why...

Good points:
- It’s a totally different take on the whole paranormal romance vampire, werewolf, zombie idea. I enjoyed it wasn’t just in your face vampire and werewolf. There are different names associated with them that bring them out of the eye rolling same old story.
- The idea of the story is new and not just a rehash or one different love triangle or another
- I enjoyed that the main character isn’t a useless fawn but also isn’t all balls up.
- I liked the secondary characters.

Bad points:
- I HATED the fact that there is abuse. Not only that there is abuse but the author makes you live through it. Not ok. TRIGGERS!
- I don’t think I like the male lead. It’s not even the whole good guy/bad guy/good guy thing. It’s not the betrayal. It’s not lies or anything like that. It just honestly feels like he is playing her through the entire book. I don’t buy the love.
- The whole idea that she is the most important thing to the whole nation but no one ever checks on her from the palace. If she is going to save the whole of everything forever then maybe see if her keeper is beating the hell out of her maybe once
- I don’t mentally understand how someone who lived such a sheltered life, doesn’t really have family who loves her, is abused by her overseers, isn’t really allowed to socialize, and who is basically kept in a closet her entire life can be a strong independent person. That’s not how it works.

Am I going to get the second book? Yes, most likely. I want to see where the story goes. Am I going to have this books on my list of books I listen to time and time again? Nope.

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  • 2020-10-08

Another Dumb Heroine!!

Another dumb heroine, acting dumb, thinking dumbly and speaking dumb. All for an undeserving man. I despise these types of books.

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  • CC
  • 2020-11-27

You saw love; I saw a dumpster fire.

Dear Audible Friends & Followers:
I would like to state for the official review
that I:
* respect all your positive reviews around this book.
* am a sucker for love a great love story.

BUT GUYS. This ish is pretty low grade quality... everything? Let’s please call a spade a spade.

So here’s what I wasn’t in the mood for:
- The insane amount of abuse. Gross. Boo. Hiss. My feminist mood was shaking her fists.
- Overall Execution:
Example 1: The voice - I just didn’t expect the voice to be so modern in this world where electricity was a BFD. I kind of wish that Armentrout would have picked a century lane and stayed in it- because the voice felt too casual/ sloppy/clunky as it went back and forth. I admit, I’m probably a little snobby about this because of my love for Outlander.

Example 2: Pacing - I can only wallow in repetitive self pity for so long. It felt like Armentrout was getting stuck in wording mini-circles.

The Audible Narrator: Meh. I’m sure Nielsen did her best but I ended up trying to go back to Kindle.

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  • Keoki McCarthy
  • 2020-09-29

Great if you are into harlequin romance

I get a little bit of character building and descriptions of love to help keep a story going. However seriously this novel was written for young adults who are just blossoming into adulthood. It is ridiculously long on the descriptions of love scenes and tender moments between characters. I bet that there is a group of people that like fantasy and like love stories. This book is for them.

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  • Mk2
  • 2020-12-04

Abysmal

This book is appallingly bad. I get it's YA. But young adult readers deserve better than to have their intelligence insulted by this garbage. I hate living in the protagonist's head. She's like the La Croix Sparkling water of the tired CHOSEN ONE female lead trope. An extremely watered down character lacking any substance. And of course she spends more time swooning over the PERFECT, yet utterly boring love interest than she does worrying about people dying around her. Extremely little happens in the first 20 or so chapters and very little writing is spent on what does occur that might be interesting. Even the "steamy" stuff is utterly laughable because I don't give a damn about either of the 2 protags and their "witty banter" is eye-rollingly dumb.

I'd sure like to know more about the fantasy world in which the characters live but what much us withheld and the story doesn't seem to really use the setting as anything but an unessecessary backdrop.

I wasn't expecting to read this to challenge my intellect. But it's not even a decent guilty pleasure. This makes Twilight look like The Great Gatsby.

I tend to finish every novel no matter how bad. I can't listen to another word of this drivel.

On another note, the narrator does a good job. There. That's the only good thing I can say....

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  • Crafty Momma
  • 2020-09-10

Wow!

This is a steamy, romantic, action and a bit of a thriller story. Some hot sexy scene and good plot. Just what I needed in the middle of this covid-19 crisis to keep my mind busy.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 2020-09-12

So freaking good!

I've known for years that Jennifer could spin a tale. But this one is her best. This is the best fantasy novel I've read since The Bridge Kingdom. I'm not even sure that I can wait for the audio of the 2nd book. I will be taking the needed time to read it. The narration was perfectly performed which made the story even better. I wish that I could give this book 10 stars!!!

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  • 📚Erin 📚
  • 2020-09-10

What an amazing story!!

I have been hearing a lot about the story of the past couple months. It’s been getting wonderful reviews but I decided to wait until the audiobook was out before I read it. Let me tell you the story was just as good if not better than everyone has been saying. Poppy and Hawke are amazing together. They have a very special relationship, the witty banter their sizzling chemistry and their deep understanding of one another is amazing to watch unfold. The only sad thing I have to say is that I have to wait till December for the next one to come out an audiobook. But I am so excited to see where the story goes.

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  • masesq
  • 2020-09-10

*Edit from my previous review...

Continued from my previous review because I’m a dork and I’m so embarrassed. I can’t believe I wrote the wrong name of the book title.

Since you can’t edit your review, I’m being a serious nerd, writing another and correcting the error in my last sentence. 🤦‍♀️

*The Brightest Night” Oct. 20th ‘20

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  • Michelle L.
  • 2020-09-16

3 somewhat long stars

I enjoyed the story but honestly this book could of been cut in half. It was way too long and a bit repetitive. I almost gave up and it does not start to pick up till your about 1/2 way through. I will buy book 2 but not sure it’s worth the price of buying the audio version again.

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