The Crown of Gilded Bones is the third installment in Jennifer Armentrout’s Blood and Ash series. This book picks up immediately where the second book ends and follows Penellaphe as she heads to Atlantia. She is freshly married to Casteel and must come to grips with her new reality. No longer is she the Maiden of Solis, but now the descendent of a god.

A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire is the second book in the Blood and Ash series and also the one I prefer least of all. Everything that I found enjoyable or interesting about the first book is no longer present in this one. I’m going to try to keep this brief because I don’t enjoy being negative, but sometimes you just gotta let it out. Ya know?

From Blood and Ash begins by introducing Penellaphe as the maiden and the reader quickly realizes that she isn’t treated great. Something I appreciated about Penellaphe, or Poppy as she is more commonly referred to, is her independence despite her chains. She is constantly fighting and I always appreciate a strong female character.