It makes marathoning these books like I did a nice, seamless saga. No, I mean JLA writes this series like it is all one book and they just sliced it up into smaller, more palatable chunks. And I don’t mean like the way some books do it, where time has gone on and they summarize events. But let’s start from the beginning.ĬROWN OF GILDED BONES or COGB starts off much like its predecessor, right from where the previous book left off. If that isn’t masterful writing, I don’t know what is. Even the parts that I predicted, JLA managed to write them in such a way that I still feel like I got the surprise and shock of the moments even though I knew what was going to happen. That last one remains to be seen for me yet. Yes, this is now officially an autobuy series, if not and autobuy author. It’s so good in fact that I also preordered the first book in the prequel series coming out in October and will do the same for book 4 as soon as the listing is up.

I’m not one to spend over $20 on a single book but I finished THE CROWN OF GILDED BONES and immediately bought all 3 hardcovers for $29 a piece. And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people-and each other. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible-travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head.īut the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers.

She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series. Published by Blue Box Press Genres: Fantasyīow Before Your Queen Or Bleed Before Her…įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L.

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