The Primal of Blood and Bone (Blood and Ash, #6) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

    

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In the shadows and flames, Primals will fall…

And from the blood and ash, new gods will rise.

What was dreamt.

Poppy was never meant to awaken, and the consequences are devastating and far-reaching, stirring ancient powers from their slumber and transforming Casteel and Kieran in ways even the Fates couldn’t have foreseen. But what that means is the least of their concerns. For now.

What was foreseen.

The Blood Crown has fallen, but what has risen is a far greater danger than they’ve ever faced. From flesh and fire, the Great Conspirator has returned to the mortal realm, and he wants only one thing. They must stop the true Primal of Death before he regains his strength, and it won’t be easy. Even weakened, his influence is undeniable. His power, unthinkable.

Has come to be.

While the future of the realms rests upon them, they won’t stand alone. The gods have awakened—each harboring their own blood-soaked secrets. But they must navigate an unbalanced realm, where every choice—past and present—has the potential to not only undo everything they’ve fought for but also destroy the very bonds that have Joined them together.

For the Harbinger and the Bringer of Death and Destruction has risen.

Read on: September 2025

Read on: eARC

Review

Before I start anything, this review might contain spoilers from the previous books. If you have not yet read the series, I highly recommend you do it.

Best order to read the Blood and Ash series and the Flesh and Fire series

From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash #1)

Kingdom of Flesh and Fire (Blood and Ash #2)

The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and Ash #3)

A Shadow in the Ember (Flesh and Fire #1)

The War of Two Queens (Blood and Ash #4)

A Light in the Flame (Flesh and Fire #2)

A Soul of Ash and Blood (Blood and Ash #5)

A Fire in the Flesh (Flesh and Fire #3)

Born of Blood and Ash (Flesh and Fire #4)

I don’t know how to write this review… Honestly, I feel like there is so much to unpack and it’s craaaaazy!

Trying to make this review spoiler free is going to be hard because of lot is happening. I can totally understand why this book had to be split in two because Jen wants to make sure we suffer a great deal before we reach the end lol Okay more seriously, she unpacked a lot of things that needed to be cleared and we know there are still a few things left to discover and probably ones we didn’t even think about.

This book gave us so much information, and it was a lot, which makes me wonder what more will she unload in the last book or if this last one will be just as big as this one. But I hope at the same time there will be more to it than just info dumping too because as much as it may be necessary, sometimes it can make a book a lot harder to get into which I won’t lie is one of the reasons it took me a while to finish.

When it comes to characters, I feel quite mixed about it all because I felt like something wasn’t the same as the previous books. I really felt sometimes there was a disconnect between them which I did not enjoy, but at the same time, all of this could be explained with everything that is going on in the book, but still. But I was equally happy to read about them again and I wished some of them had been there more often in the book. Some I wish we didn’t have to deal with but unfortunately, they are there, and we need to deal with them. This book didn’t (not that I believed it would) change my mind about Kolis.

I trust that all the pain we got throughout the whole series will be worth the wait for the next book because even though Jen loves to make us suffer through loss and pain in her book series, she will always give us a HEA, and I really hope she doesn’t change that for this book series.

Overall, I did enjoy the book. It may not be necessarily my favourite of the series, but I still enjoyed it and was happy to connect again with all the characters and Jen is one of the few authors who will always find a way to get out of my reading slumps.

I was giving an advanced copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

Review: Born of Blood and Ash (Flesh and Fire, #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

   

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the thrilling conclusion to her beloved Flesh and Fire series…

The line between love and obsession has never been wider.

While Sera is finally free of Kolis and back with those she loves, not everything is calm. Memories of all she’s endured still haunt her, but Sera finally has hope for a future with the other half of her heart and soul. Nyktos desires, loves, and accepts every part of her—even the monstrous bits she still battles.

More than ever, Sera and Ash have everything under the realms to fight for, and Nyktos has no doubt Sera is fit to be the Queen of the Gods. But she must find that faith within herself if they hope to convince the other Courts to support them against Kolis and make Iliseeum and the mortal realm better, safer places for all.

But as Sera begins to piece together the importance of her bloodline and the true meaning behind the foreboding prophecy, it becomes clear that everything that has happened and is yet to come is much bigger than Kolis and his dark obsessions.

They cannot help but wonder exactly how much influence the Fates have had and what their ultimate goal is. What Sera does know for sure is that they can trust very few—including her.

A battle between the gods is brewing, and heartbreaking losses are imminent with the true Primal of Death strengthening. With a family of the heart willing to battle by their side, can Sera and Nyktos stop Kolis before he destroys the realms, or will it all disappear in a fiery inferno of blood and ash?

And the line between justice and vengeance has never been so thin.

Read from: August 2024

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Review

Before I start anything, this review might contain spoilers from the previous books. If you have not yet read the series, I highly recommend you do it.

This book was one of the few joys that I had this year. I was so excited to start this book and even if I didn’t start it the moment I got it, once I started it, I couldn’t put it down.

The final book of this series continues where we left off in A Fire in the Flesh and from there on, Sera and Nyktos need to find a way to end Kolis’ reign.

I really enjoyed my reading of this book. It had everything and even if some moments I felt like they were more fillers than anything, I wouldn’t change anything. 

I loved how much Sera has grown since the first book and this book was another level of growth for her. Learning to live with her new role in this world has gotten her to shape her actions of course, but I feel everything she went through in just the last book alone would push someone to grow.

Nyktos and her will always make sense to me. They are not a perfect couple, but they worked within their strengths and their weaknesses to move forward. I felt like in this book, their relationship was taking a new point, especially with everything that happened with Kolis in the last book. It has come with its challenges, but I do feel they are such a strong couple.

A lot happens in this book and I’m trying to keep this spoiler free, but even if some of these things I predicted, a lot of them I did not and I love this. I don’t know if it’s because I’m not good at predicting, but I think that people will also be surprised by some turn of events in this book.

As always, there are characters you will love and some you will hate, but I think that’s the beauty in this sort of book series because one without the other would probably make it a boring book.

I just need to put this here in my review… I adored Reaver. That’s it. I just love him.

Overall, I loved the whole series and I’m looking forward to reading the next book in the blood and ash series and see where it will go from there.

I was giving an advanced copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

Review: A Fire in the Flesh (Flesh and Fire, #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

  

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From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book three in her Flesh and Fire series…

The only thing that can save the realms now is the one thing more powerful than the Fates.

After a startling betrayal ends with both Sera and the dangerously seductive ruler of the Shadowlands she has fallen madly in love with being held captive by the false King of the Gods, there is only one thing that can free Nyktos and prevent the forces of the Shadowlands from invading Dalos and igniting a War of Primals.

Convincing Kolis won’t be easy, though – not even with a lifetime of training. While his most favored Revenant is insistent that she is nothing more than a lie, Kolis’s erratic nature and twisted sense of honor leave her shaken to the core, and nothing could’ve prepared her for the cruelty of his Court or the shocking truths revealed. The revelations not only upend what she has understood about her duty and the very creation of the realms but also draw into question exactly what the true threat is. However, surviving Kolis is only one part of the battle. The Ascension is upon her, and Sera is out of time.

But Nyktos will do anything to keep Sera alive and give her the life she deserves. He’ll even risk the utter destruction of the realms, and that’s exactly what will happen if he doesn’t Ascend as the Primal of Life. Yet despite his desperate determination, their destinies may be out of their hands.

But there is that foreseen unexpected thread—the unpredictable, unknown, and unwritten. The only thing more powerful than the Fates…

Read from: October 27 to October 29, 2023

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Review

I have no idea how to start this review and it’s often the case when it comes to Jennifer L. Armentrout’s (JLA or Jen) books. I swear while reading this one, I wanted to throw it as much as I wanted to hug it. After finishing this one, I could understand the need to be a 4th book because I can’t imagine how big it would have been considering we know quite a few things still needs to happen.

Well, I’ll go with my usual disclaimer: if you haven’t read the previous books in the Fire and Flesh series, please do not read this review since it’s a big possibility that spoilers from the previous books will be mentioned. Also, I recommend highly to go read them if you haven’t read them because along with the Blood and ash series, it is my favorite JLA book series.

The book continues where the previous one left us and honestly, from this moment to the next, there is not a boring moment. Even the fillers in this book are filled with information that you know will be useful later on in this series or the other.

Honestly, I didn’t know what I was expecting when I went into this book because I knew that with Sera now being captured by Kolis, this book wasn’t going to be a walk in the park, and I was right as much as I was wrong.

Jen has a way to make you feel through the characters even the ones you don’t want to. The way she wrote Kolis is something that I wasn’t expecting. I liked that I was surprised that I could feel things for him other than hatred (though still the strongest and main feeling hahaha). 

Sera’s strength in this book is once more shown throughout the whole book. I honestly felt for her through it all; from her fears to her determination, she powers through even in moments of doubts. I feel like this book is really the epitome of what Sera was always meant to realize she could do.

Sera and Ash’s bond is so strong and as much as I would like to add more than this simple sentence, I feel I’m about to spoil something, but yeah, these two are just a new level of chemistry.

And so many reveals are in this book and my mind was blown quite a few times through my reading. Some of them were something I wasn’t expecting at all, and I love that. I love how I am always surprised with these books.

So much is said and done in this book and I feel like a lot of what’s to come in the blood and ash series were hinted in this book and as much as I would like to believe that I am good figuring them out (FYI I am not :P), I feel like whatever my mind can come up with, Jen will find a way to surprise us again by adding her own special twist into them.

Overall, this book is a 5-star read and I’m just waiting on the fourth book now because I know a lot has happened in this one, but since she had to add another book; I feel we need to be ready to what else she’s going to put us through to get to the end of this series.

I was giving an advanced copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.