The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King (Crowns of Nyaxia Book 2)

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But with enemies closing in on all sides, nothing is as it seems. As she unravels her past and faces her future, Oraya finds herself forced to choose between the bloody reality of seizing power – and the devastating love that could be her downfall. Review

With no trials to go through, the plot focuses a lot on the action and political side of the story, but it also gives us Oraya and Riahn's fans the thing we were left craving since the infamous end of The Serpent and the Wings of Night, which is, well...more Oraya and Riahn. If I’m being honest, the betrayal never felt like a true betrayal. I think it just allowed for a certain character to ignore where the true betrayal actually came from and the way Carissa Broadbent dissected that? Top tier.

The Ashes and the Star Cursed King Summary

You have nothing but me,” I said. “And yet, you’d let me go?” “I have nothing but you,” he murmured. “So I am letting you go.” The things you��ve seen here have so tainted your image of me? I meant to give this place all my greatest achievements, my greatest ambitions. Instead, it became a monument to all my greatest mistakes.”

The House of Night, too, is surrounded by enemies. Raihn's own nobles are none too eager to accept a Turned king, especially one who was once a slave. And the House of Blood digs their claws into the kingdom, threatening to tear it apart from the inside. The romance was angstyyyy, slow burn-yyy and one that swept me off my feet. Raihn and Oraya are so so good together. The chemistry is off the charts. Like I was giggling, blushing, screaming and all that. The spice was HOT 🥵We'll rip apart the worlds that subjugated both of us, and from the ashes we'll build something new. Power hurts. It requires sacrifice. Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Climb the bars until you're so high no one can catch you. I am writing this review a day after finishing it, and I don’t know if I am prepared to still close our chapter of Oraya’s and Raihn’s story. However, I am pleased to say that this story ended in a way that doesn’t leave me disappointed with their outcome, but only more eager for the world of Nyaxia’s Crown and what else is in store. I was everything I was meant to be. My father’s daughter. Victim and protégée. Greatest love and ruination.” I loved the way Raihn and Oraya faced their own fears and healed from their past traumas. Both of our main characters had to face a lot of challenges and were so brave while fighting for what they believe in. Their transformations and strength were inspiring.

The slower pace in this book allowed me to see our main characters grow as individuals and together as a couple. The author also put more focus on the world building here, which really helped to fill in the gaps about the setting and history of Obitraes.

I dream about that sound.” His mouth was so close to my throat. I could feel his voice vibrate on my flesh, right against the scar that he’d left. “Do you know that?” Vincent - ”I will not lie to you, little serpent. I was expecting to kill you that night. But what I was not expecting was to love you so devastatingly much.” Although gone, Vincent does not leave us or Oraya in book two. Personally my favorite character from book one after being the most interesting and compelling. Vincent’s story and past gets peeked into as Oraya struggles with her love and hatred for her father and his actions. ok so why did this finishing this entire series feel like waking up from a dream in which you lived a totally different life to wake up and realize not one bit of it was real?!? i self-inserted myself into this world, these characters to the point that my day to day lingo was switching up!!! i’m not the same as i once was. the ache and deep void i feel makes me want to light myself on fire!!🫨 And for Raihn. I wanted this man to grovel after the events of the first book. I wanted him to prove that he was, or is, worthy of whatever he thinks he’s worthy of. I wanted him to deserve the love he so desperately craved. And boy did he deliver. It took him some time, but he got there. And shall i say in the best way possible. I am queen just as much as he is king. When we’ve reclaimed our kingdom, I intend to rule beside him as such.”