But if the massive success of the Twilightfranchise has taught us anything, it’s that our pop culture loves the idea of vampires as love interests. As humans, we had no cure to fight their diseases, no ability to outrun them, no way to counter their magic or the monsters they’d awakened. There were a lot of elements to this story that just didn't make sense or required more explanation. I disliked the relationship between Isolde and Adrian, mostly because it wasn’t a relationship/romance, it was just sleeping together. It is an enemies-to-lovers romance set in a dark fantasy world filled with all kinds of blood-craving monsters.

Rumors of how their leader—I hated to even think his name—Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev had leveled Jola, ravished Siva, conquered Lita, and burned Thea.Anyhow, two things I wanted to point out though it's neither on my good nor bad side is — i) the representation in this book. A pesar del odio que hay allí, Isolde y Aleksandr sienten una conexión innegable entre ellos y pronto le darán rienda suelta a sus pasiones, pero, claro, detrás de todo esto hay un secreto que tendrá que salir a la luz eventualmente. Sometimes things were said out of nowhere that I had to go back and read not just one paragraph but sometimes a whole page to see what I missed. I feel like there’s this tendency in traditional publishing to not recognize what readers actually want. There wasn’t enough build-up or longing between the two of them to make me actually feel like it meant much more than sex.

This was one of my most anticipated books this year, and my God, did it exceed my (high) expectations! I swallowed a gasp as a heady flush unraveled within my body, and I wanted to crawl out of my skin as my eyes connected with a familiar, gorgeous face.Sure, I get that vampires are incredibly sexual, but I feel like he would have been more of a recluse and bitter while he waited, instead of screwing half the kingdom. Alec Killian is the commander of the royal guard of the house of Lara – a position he inherited from his late father who died three years ago. the plot in ‘the shadows between us,’ the twists in ‘city of thorns,’ and the overall vibe and world in ‘from blood and ash. As a seasoned fighter, she defeated the filthy creature of course, suffering just a few scratches that were healed by a strange vampire she encountered in the woods – the same people she considered her enemies. And in that moment, he’d looked so broken, I hadn’t been able to utter another word—not to him, not to Killian.