Title: Building From Ashes
Author: Elizabeth Hunter
Source: eARC from author for review
Estimated Release Date: Oct 23rd
Adult read
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For a thousand years, powerful earth
vampire Carwyn ap Bryn has served others. God. His family. His friends. But
tragedy and loss disrupt his peaceful existence, causing him to question
everything he has committed his eternity to.
Brigid Connor has known about vampires
since they rescued her from a painful childhood. But not even their vast
elemental power can save her from the demons that torment her.
As loyalties are tested and new paths are
forged, a lurking danger slowly grows in the Elemental World. Carwyn and Brigid
will learn that even secrets revealed can come back to haunt you when you least
expect it.
A continuation/spinoff of the Elemental
Mysteries series. The timeline in this books stretches from BEFORE A Hidden
Fire starts (so you see a little character history) until AFTER A Fall of Water
finishes. As I’m sure lots of you could tell, Carwyn had quite a few things
going on in his life that didn’t make it into Gio and Beatrice’s story. So
Building From Ashes explores that storyline and also sets up the Elemental
World for some new adventures...
My take...
I was super stoked to hear Elizabeth was
going to continue on with Carwyn's story when I finished up the Elemenal
Mysteries series. So when she offered me the chance to read an ARC of Building
From Ashes, I was even more stoked. Readers will be able to see a different
side of Carwyn & have a deeper appreciation for him. Readers will also get
a different spin on the Elixir story line from the first series. But fear not,
if you haven’t read the Elemental Mysteries series, you won’t be lost. Although
it helps having that extra back ground on some of the characters you experience
in Building From Ashes.
I hope that the readers who are not raised
Catholic and not knowing what it means to be Catholic will understand the
torment that Brigid is feeling when it comes to her feelings for Carwyn. Not
only that, the torment Carwyn is facing when weighing his options of leaving
the Church. Being raised Catholic myself, I understand that having feelings for
a Priest is a big no-no. Not that I ever had. Lordy, we only had old decrepit
Priests when I was Catholic. And I cannot imagine the stress a Priest finds himself
in when questioning whether or not it is a right choice to leave the Church.
This calling is supposed to be for life. But who can blame Carwyn after devoting
over a 1000 years to the Church.
Ok with that little bit said I just loved
this book. Elizabeth gives us another wonderful story that is so incredibly
written. It was great being back in her world of Immortals that it felt like coming
home after a brief hiatus. It just felt right. And along the way throughout the
book, I catch myself smiling at parts that I remembered happening in the first
series. Also, we get little snippets of Gio and B too, so that was an added
plus.
But even though I knew of some of what was
going on in Building From Ashes thanks to the first series, I was still
pleasantly surprised with all that happens in this one. Lots of twists and lots
of turns…lots of suspense and lots of swoony Carwyn. Yeah he was just too
adorable. I think those who loved him before are going to go absolutely gaga
over him now. I will mention that I had to go back and read the prologue again
when I go to that part in the book. Ah! It was just too much. My poor heart
cannot take the romance that Elizabeth dishes out.
Readers who are looking for a good book
that screams mystery and romance…Building of Ashes was made for you. I already
want to go back and reread the whole Elemental Mysteries series, especially the
last one, so I can see if I might have overlooked anything with Carwyn. *Sigh*
This book was just too wonderful…I could go on for hours about it. Hope you
like it as much as I did.
This sounds good. Great review :)
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