Perhaps even more so than From Blood and Ash. The whole book is about their relationship from Beginning to End and this is very most definitely heavily romance involved in a fantasy world. Long story short, when it’s time for Niktos to claim Sera, he rejects her and upsets the whole plan Sera’s family had for killing the Primal and reversing a terrible curse upon their land. But still, it definitely threw me for a bit. Yes, yes, I now understand that word in particular relates to a royal spouse. Why do we have to be all confusing? Can we not just say wife?

Like, mistress, hooker, etc.Ĭome to find out, consort is another word for wife or husband. Secondly, for about half the book I confused a consort with an escort. The really boring and confusing first chapter aside, the fact that the royal line hadn’t had a daughter in 200 years astounded me. So this caused some issues for me at first. Two hundred years before her birth, her ancestor, the King of Lasania, made a deal with the Primal of Death that the firstborn daughter of his line would be bound to the Primal as his Consort. Armentrout books in order for more details.Ī Shadow in the Ember follows Seraphena, or Sera for short. You can check out my full list of Jennifer L. Armentrout is no stranger to spin-off series. They’re obviously related, and Jennifer L. Not to be confused with the Blood and Ash series, even though the second book of that is A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire. A Shadow in the Ember Review – Spoiler-FreeĪ Shadow in the Ember is the first book in the Flesh and Fire series.

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