A Curse of Ash and Embers by Jo Spurrier

The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the island’s magic and its spirits. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core.' - Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delightsįorbidden magic, a family secret, and a night to reveal it all.

I may still continue on with the series as I am interested to see where the story goes & also to learn more about Aleida.'A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. I enjoyed the plot and Aleida but didn’t particularly care for the main character and the writing was a bit bland. While I enjoyed some aspects there were a fair few things that I didn’t enjoy. So overall the book was a bit all over the place. I also found Aleida really interesting which helped keep me interested when reading. She felt quite flat and that made it difficult to connect with her and a main character.Īleida had a lot more background which gave her a lot more substance than Dee had in the story. Besides the arsehole of a step father and a little bit about her mother & fathers story we didn’t really get that much about Dee herself.

One was a bit 1 dimensional and the other was interesting and thought out.ĭee who is our main character was the one that felt very 1 dimensional. The two major characters of the book were basically opposite. There was a lot of building up to the next plot point which kept me interested even when the book was a bit slow. The plot was my favourite aspect of the book. They were kinda hard to understand which took away from the whole engaging aspect of an action scene. While the plot was interesting there were also a fair few places where the book felt a bit slow. So we didn’t get a tonne of background except in regard to the Aleida. The book didn’t have a huge amount of world building as there seemed to be more of a focus on plot. It was kinda bland but the plot made up for it. So to be completely honest I didn’t love the writing.

A Curse of Ash and Embers by Jo Spurrier