The inevitably gorgeous characters flat, with even their trueĭeclarations feeling false.

Pages feel like a fast-forward through events and decisions with noīuildup and overdramatic telling-not-showing of emotions. First, assuming familiarity with book one, it offers minimalīackstory on the world and its characters. While this book has a premise teeming with dramatic possibilities,Īnd occasionally lyrical descriptions, it mostly falls short inĮxecution. Trust Dane anymore? Can she even trust herself? Only allowed because of Ashlyns connection to Rhys. Immortals who believe Dane is Coronado and Ashlyn is Katia, with Katia There she finds a houseful of untrustworthy, resentful Judgement, and desperate to find her twin, Ashlyn joins Dane at his Still passionately attracted to Dane despite her better Locate Rhys-now vital, since someone is using Rhys's blood to kill Months later,ĭane is back, swearing he can control Coronado and promising to help Twin, Rhys, discovered that his blood could kill, he fled.

Was overtaken by the evil spirit Coronado. After she had to kill her mother toĭispatch the evil spirit Katia, her blood-bonded immortal lover, Dane, The events of Blood and Salt (Penguin, 2015/ VOYA August 2015) leftĪshlyn immortal but heartbroken. Heart of Ash: Blood and Salt, Book 2.' Retrieved from Heart of Ash: Blood and Salt, Book 2.' The Free Library. The love story is dripping with Gothic fervor and angst, and the glamorous world Ash and Dane are swept into might hold appeal for readers who enjoy romance and are already familiar with the characters.

Like the first installment, the plot is difficult to follow, and without the intrigue of the bizarre cornfield cult as a backdrop, there is not as much payoff for parsing out the story line. They still share an intense, almost maudlin attraction, but Ash (and readers) is never sure if it is Dane she's swooning over or if Coronado is pulling the strings. The two hatch a complicated plot to fool the surviving immortals and save Rhys. Ash tries her hardest to stay away despite their blood bond but when she finds out her absent brother Rhys has been murdering immortals with his deadly blood, possibly against his will, she knows Dane might have some information. Dane is now hosting Coronado in his body and has been thrown in the limelight as a handsome, wealthy playboy. Gr 9 Up-This follow-up to Blood and Salt takes the murderous scheming of immortals out of the cornfield and into the wealthy upper echelon of society.

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