A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire: A Blood and Ash Novel (Blood And Ash Series)

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Jasper also tells Poppy she’s probably not an Empath. He says the healing and glowing don’t match up. But she still smells old. Poppy tries to help the people who were hurt in the fight with the Ascended Knights. She eases their pain. Not everyone wants her help though. Some don’t trust her. Fair. Apparently, people with empath character traits were also called Soul Eaters. So I’d be scared of them too. They would feed on others by siphoning the energy from others’ emotions.

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You’re beautiful when you’re quiet and somber, but when you laugh? You rival the sunrise over the Skotos Mountains.” I loved this book. A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire was leaps and bounds better than the first book. So much happened, I couldn’t believe it just kept going. We learned a lot more. Still have questions, but they’re starting to get fleshed out (get it? ha.). But even so, sometimes, the heartbreak that comes with loving someone is worth it, even if loving that person means eventually saying goodbye to them.” After waking up from a nightmare, Poppy and Hawke chat about traumas. He starts to open up about what happened to him when he was captured. Basically, they refused him blood, so he couldn’t heal. Since he was so hungry, sometimes he would accidentally kill the people they brought him to feed him. Then they’d leave the bodies there with him to rot and taunt him. Cas begins to feed on Poppy and shoves Poppy against Kieran. Things get immensely sexual and Kieran intervenes to keep Cas from taking too much blood from Poppy. Once he makes sure that both are okay, Kieran leaves. Cas thanks Poppy and gives pleasure to her.What if I just wanted a piece of you? A tiny piece that belonged to me? [...] Tell me what piece of you I can have. It can be any piece of your choosing. Whatever it is, I’ll take it.” His chin grazed my cheek. “It will be my most prized possession.” Currently at this time, there are no plans for a spin-off. I have other books/series I need to work on before I could seriously entertain that idea, plus there would need to be some time away from the series. That’s not the only repetitive thing however. Every single time Poppy meets someone new, they have a discussion about how “violent” she is and how she stabbed Hawke when he betrayed her. This conversation legit happens every couple of chapters and at one point, it’s just like... I get it. I was actually there when it happened so I don’t need to reread the events over and over again. I get that she’s not like other girls , I promise- (thankfully, no one actually uses this phrase in the book so thank God for small mercies I guess). Disbelief thundered through me. “Maybe I wasn’t clear, so I will try to be more explicit now. I don’t know why you’d think, in a million years, that I’d marry you.” I tipped toward him. “Is that clear enough?” All I could do was stare at the larger hand holding my much smaller one. His skin was slightly darker than mine as if kissed by the sun. Years of wielding a sword with deadly, graceful precision had left his palms callused.

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I genuinely love Poppy and Casteel, even though they do not communicate enough in my opinion, not nearly enough, I like them as individuals. Poppy’s up in the parapets with her bow and arrow. Casteel is like don’t leave this spot and run if I get hurt. She’s like nah, can’t do that. Told him that if a woman fights with that kind of passion and makes you work that hard to earn even a smile, then that’s the kind of woman you want by your side in and out of the bedchamber.” Castell is in a sharing mood… Did we know he could use compulsion? I can’t remember, but he admits that he can and that he has been able to since his Culling when he turned 19. But his compulsion does not work on the Ascended. Bummer.And with that help, Poppy makes her way to that carriage. Throws the door open. And there’s Duchess Teerman. She claims Tawny is Ascended; Poppy doesn’t believe her. The Duchess realizes Poppy is married and starts laughing. She says the Queen will be thrilled to hear that Poppy had done what she could never accomplish. The Atlantians have created a town on the Solis side of the Skotos Mountains to start testing things out. More space for their kingdom. Who are the Guardians? This book going to erotica books kind of places, sure I do appreciate some scenes but the Joining? Euh... Poppy spends her time healing those that she can. She’s warned that she hasn’t been accepted by the people even though Casteel has chosen her. Poppy just realized that all she believed to be true about her kingdom, about the Atlantians, and about Hawke are lies, and she now has to come to terms with this stinging betrayal. She is hurt, confused, and angry (and stabby), and I loved how she remained strong through all of it, and also how she held onto her anger. She did not forgive Cas after 2 hours just because he apologized and showed his dimple. Poppy is brave and fearless at times, and her obsession with sharp objects and stabbing has become a running gag in the book, but it really made me laugh.

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The moment has come for Poppy and Casteel’s last big conversation before battle. You know, the one where they clear the air in case they die.

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The next morning, Delano is guarding the bedchamber door while Cas is gone. Delano suddenly comes barging into the room because he heard Poppy yelling, except Poppy had not been yelling out loud, only internally. Delano pales but says it must have been the wind.Guys, Jennifer Armentrout used straight up witchcraft to write this novel. That’s got to be her secret because I didn’t think she could top From Blood and Ash, but she did! I stared up at him, hands and arms trembling. “I don’t know what you want from me.” “Everything,” he bit out between clenched teeth. “I want everything.” Cas tells her that he came to her room tonight to find out if what she had said at dinner was real or just pretending. Poppy feeling to exposed says nothing causing Cas to laugh. He says that all he ever receives from her is silence, so why would he tell her any of the things that she demanded to know. He tells her he wants everything from her. They both breakdown and admit that neither of them understand their relationship. As Cas explains to Poppy how not falling in love with her would have been way easier and as he starts to tell Poppy about Shea, the two are interrupted by Emil, who states that the sky is on fire.