From the Ashes (The Phoenix Project Duet #1) by Candice M. Wright - Starting July 13th 2020

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

For twenty-four years I have been fighting for my life,
And I’m losing.
Out of time and options,
I make a devil's bargain with the Phoenix group that ensures my family will be provided for once I'm gone.
So, I pack up what’s left of my life and sign it over to them.
I have a month left to live, 43200 fleeting minutes.
Yet, it’s long enough for everything to change.
Long enough to dream big, to love hard, and inexplicably begin to heal.
But the thing about a devil's bargain is that there is inevitably a price to pay.
Always one step ahead, The Phoenix group observe, test, and wait for someone special to come along.
Someone like me.
Now, to avoid spending the rest of my life in a cage,
The girl who was once ready to die will burn the world to ashes for a chance to live.

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

24% (view spoiler)[She didn’t take that pill the first time but what about the weeks since? How messed up they have her living with a bunch of guys and ex convicts to boot lol (hide spoiler)]

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

Got into the book and didn’t realize I made it so far before commenting lol
70% (view spoiler)[And here I was thinking she shouldn’t trust that doctor but maybe she really was trying to help. Holy hell though, they made her believe she had cancer and she lost her breasts and uterus over a lie. And now Jack died which was kinda lame and unnecessary, I mean how did Johns father even make it through the heavily guarded perimeter. Also I still want fox to apologize for knocking her over in the beginning. Funny how quick the guys all changed once they found out she’s a girl (hide spoiler)]

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

77% (view spoiler)[so I wanna know why they are taking all this time to mess around, I thought there was an urgency to get out of there lol 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ (hide spoiler)]

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

Finished (view spoiler)[I think I’m in shock. Wtf just happened.... they killed her family and her baby brother. Speechless. And definitely looking forward to the next one, this was a crazy book. While I think the whole ‘come let us experiment on you and we’ll compensate your families’ gig is one of those too good to be true scenarios and utterly ridiculous I did get pretty invested in where the story was going. Not sure how I feel with the guys because every time they supposedly came clean with her, it’s later revealed they were keeping more secrets. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

34%

(view spoiler)[ Well not only does she have the cancer but she has to deal with living in this shitty place too. I wonder how long she'll survive. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

55%

(view spoiler)[ Well this is fast paced. So they are being experimented on and now they have formed the harem. (hide spoiler)]

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

Mummy's Naughty Corner wrote: "34%

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(view spoiler)[I can't believe how cruel they were to house her with a bunch of guys and convicts to boot lol. Then again the whole thing is almost too good to be true so the heroine really should have been better prepared for disappointment (hide spoiler)]

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

Mummy's Naughty Corner wrote: "55%

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(view spoiler)[Crazy what people will be willing to subject themselves too when they believe their death is imminent. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

84%

(view spoiler)[ I like the way that she tries so hard to remember Jack and makes sure that they don't forget him. I like the fact that she's working out what they know in parts. It keeps you reading. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

Finished

(view spoiler)[ Wow what a twist, I didn't see that coming. they obliviously knew and kept that from her. I wonder what she'll do now. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "24% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ I know I wonder why they did that. they obliviously don't care about her or her welfare. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "Got into the book and didn’t realize I made it so far before commenting lol
70% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ Yeah there are a few gaps in the story or the answers will come later. (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "Finished [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ I enjoyed this but not as much as you. I hope there are no more secrets because it's getting hard to like the guys if they did anything else. (hide spoiler)]

[❀ Crystal ✿ -]

Mummy's Naughty Corner wrote: "Finished

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Seriously though, I’m still in shock (view spoiler)[that they killed her family. Also makes me question the guys overall because of how blindly they believed and listened to their ‘bosses’. I mean had they never heard of recon, I imagine had they known a little boy was in there they may have gone about things differently 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ What an ending though, talk about bombs dropping 😂😂 (hide spoiler)]

[Mummy's Naughty Corner]

❀ Crystal ✿ - wrote: "Mummy's Naughty Corner wrote: "Finished

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Seriously though, I’m still in shock [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[ yeah I wonder why they didn't ask more questions and just blindly did it. (hide spoiler)]