Heart of Ash
By Kim Liggett
The last few weeks I have been reading really deep dish books or stories that require a lot of focus. So I needed a break this week bookwise. I needed mind fluff. The sequel to a book I read last year came out and my pre-order came just in time to fulfill my mind candy craving.
This week's book is the second installment of the Blood and Salt series. I don't know if it's really a series with only two books, but whatever. The books are about Ash this girl that has kinda super powers and is in a weird relationship with a possessed guy that came from where her family came from. In the first book we learn Ash’s mother came from a Children of the Corn like place, and when Ash and her brother go to save their mother, all hell breaks loose and Ash falls in love with a guy that ends up being a poop (sort of?).
The second book starts with our main character without her brother and she is lost in life. She ends up going to Spain to try to find her brother. She is with her blood husband/partner/whatever you want to call him. She has to say she is her great great great grandma, because everyone is immortal. (Okay when I start explaining this plot I sound crazy).
I somewhat feel like this second book is trying to be a Fifty Shades of Grey for teens, without the dirty red room (yeah I read the those books like every other red blooded woman). I didn't like this book as much as the first book. It had a ancient old world creepy factor, which as the original book had a creepy farm/cult kind of feel. Both are filled with teen angst and I don't really dont do those type of books, even when I was a teen. If you have read the first book then you definitely need to read it to see where the plot goes, but otherwise use your own judgement.
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