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

by Jennifer L. Armentrout

My mother placed the Veil of the Chosen over my head. The flimsy material floated around my shoulders and then settled so that only my lips and jaw were visible, the length flowing down my back. I could barely see through the wispy material as the thin chains were placed atop my head to hold it in place. This veil wasn’t nearly as thick as the one I wore whenever I was around anyone but my immediate family and Sir Holland, nor did it cover the entirety of my face.

very interesting...is this the first maiden the ascended spoke of?

Tonight, on my seventeenth birthday, I would become the Primal of Death’s Consort.

Okay why is this OLD god marrying a 17 year old??? JLA when i find you...

If I had a child, or if any descendant of mine had been harmed, I would burn through both realms just so I could flay the skin from the body of the one who’d hurt them.

The white wolf.

Nyktos

One where I was wanted instead of scorned, desired instead of disliked.

🥲

his hair as I did just as he’d demanded with wild abandon. All I could hear

thought this because he’d never asked for a name. I was still a stranger to him.

😭😭😭 but i definitely think this is because he already knows who she is

I’d never been gifted anything in my life.

😭😭😭 that's soo sadd

How Sir Holland had come across such a potion, I didn’t know. But it was a miracle, and I just might hug the man when next I saw him. With food in my belly, I felt mostly normal. I entered the bathing chamber to brush my teeth and bent over the small basin to rinse out my mouth. As I placed the pitcher on the narrow shelf above the basin, I looked down. “What the…?” I whispered, staring at the streaks of red among the foamy paste. Blood.

really suspicious...I'm thinking Sir Holland knows what Sera is (as in why she has life magic) and it has something to do with this ache -izzy did he give her blood to heal her? izzy is on to something. -sehoya

The Primal of Life stared directly into the alcove I knelt in, and I could no longer keep my eyes open. Wetness gathered against my lashes as they lowered, but I still felt his stare, as hot as the sun itself—as warm as the gift throbbing in my chest.

imagine if she were in a love triangle with primal of life and primal of death HAHA

By nightfall the day of the Rite, a faint ache had started in my jaw again.

growing fangs? disease? what is happeningggg

A sudden breath of cold air touched the damp skin of my neck, causing my head to jerk up. A shiver crawled its way down my spine. I slipped my hand under my hair and clasped the back of my neck, feeling nothing but skin.

freaky...

Yeah,” he breathed, grabbing a fistful of hair. He lifted my head, and I dragged in mouthfuls of air. “You heard me right. I am King.” “How? Your father—” “He died in the middle of the night. In his sleep.” He yanked my head back. Fiery pain erupted over my scalp, and pressure pushed down on my spine as he held my head and neck at an unnatural angle. “The Healers say it was an ailment of the heart.”

was it ailment of the heart or when she brings someone back from the dead, their life is traded for someone else's?

Rhain.

isn't this who Poppy and lots of humans believed was the god of common men and endings??

Reaver,”

im pretty sure this is one of the draken that talked with poppy!!

For some reason,

two hundred years

LOL Sehoya can't be mad at JLA anymore bc Cas is like the same age

child would carry some mark upon them, too,

sera's moon tattoo

I watched him pour the juice into a glass and then set about placing a little bit of everything on a plate—bacon, the sausage, the eggs, the fruit, and two rolls. Then he placed that plate in front of me.

I fear it is this easy for me to fall for a man.

You’d have to really make a draken mad for it to want to eat you.

im thinking of one of the draken consistently threatening to eat Kieran 🤣

Daddy Nyktos

💀💀💀💀

shot back as the creature caught fire and screamed.

not them arguing while the creatures are just being demolished casually lol

Because you’ve given him peace.”

😭😭😭 STOP ! I need Sera to stop this idea of killing Ash immediately. this needs to end

It had been forfeited before I was even born.

ACK

ember of life.”

I wonder if this is a gift from Kolis. the Primal of Life...maybe there was a two way deal?

Until his brother stole it from him. His twin, Kolis.”

TEAAAAA!!

hope she has in each life.”

I wonder if we will meet her in one of the books....what if the revenant was her??-izzy or what if its sera-sehoya

“Death,” Ash replied. Ice touched my skin. “Death of everything, eventually. Both here and in the mortal realm. It may take several mortal lifetimes for it to destroy the mortal realm completely, but it’s already started. Two Primals of Death cannot rule, and that is what is happening. Because at Kolis’s very core, that is what he is.”

So she needs to kill kolis to stop the rot

no Primal of Life.”

so she doesnt need to kill him?? we need to team up and kill Kolis muahaha

Now I think I’m in love,” Rhain

it's the way they're both mad at Sera but still joking around her

You can never weaken me to the point that you’d ever be a real threat.”

im actually devastated right now...I dint want to read a sexy scene on this context 😭😭

Nyktos drew in a deep, forced breath as the shadows scattered away from him, retreating to the walls and corners. “You killed him.” “Was I not supposed to?” Ector lowered his hand. “He tried to kill her, and for reasons, you are not too keen on that idea.”

Uh oh....ws he working with hamid and killed him before questioning so he couldnt be linked to tbis....NOOOOO

“I thought you were dead.” What the…? “You’re not.”

HAHAHAHA

“That…” Nyktos swallowed, briefly closing his eyes. When they reopened, the eather had slowed. “That changes nothing.”

Yeah sure buddy

“Penellaphe?”

Whaaaaa

“But I am not the Arae. You’ll understand why I’ve come,” she said, stepping back. Her hands clasped together. “One of the Arae waits inside for you. For both of you.”

I wonder if its sir holland....

Because it couldn’t be Sir Holland.

SHUT THE FRONT DOOR I KNEW IT

viktor?”

I love that this name is used as "protector" makes me think of poppys victor sigh rip

“But I also saw her. I saw them. A Chosen and a descendant of the First.” The eather burned brightly in Penellaphe’s eyes as they met mine. “A Queen of Flesh and Fire. And him, a King risen from Blood and Ash, who ruled side by side with man. And they…they felt right. They felt like hope.”

ACK SCREAMING AHHHHBBH EEKKKKK

two born of the same misdeeds, born of the same great and Primal power in the mortal realm. A first daughter, with blood full of fire, fated for the once-promised King. And the second daughter, with blood full of ash and ice, the other half of the future King.

TWO DAUGHTERS??? Poppy and WHO

accepted.”

Or...ascended mwuahaha

“It’s love,”

Op i thought i did something there

“Not without the love of the one who would aid her Ascension.”

OH I DID DO SOMETHING HAHAHAHA

And I didn’t need to be a Fate to know that I truly would die.

This made me chuckle

“You have had as many outcomes as you’ve had lives,” he told me. “Many lives?” I repeated.

I knew it she is sotoria or whatever her name is