Format: Kindle, 187 pages
Release Date: March 21, 2023
Publisher: Tor Publishing
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Fantasy / Romance
Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation… or her damnation.
Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands.
Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood—the one hope for her town’s salvation.
But when what begins as a simple transaction gradually becomes something more, Lilith is faced with a terrifying realization: It’s dangerous to wander into the clutches of a vampire… and in a place already suffering a god’s wrath, more dangerous still to fall in love with one.
"Whatever you need. My blood. My books. My knowledge. Anything. It is yours."
Six Scorched Roses, by Carissa Broadbent is a standalone novella set in the Crowns of Nyaxia world. It takes place roughly in parallel, timeline-wise, to The Serpent and the Wings of Night. Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter, especially her sister Mina. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands.
Desperate to find a cure for Vitarus wrath, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate even more than her village: a vampire, Lord Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood—the one hope for her town’s salvation. But when what begins as a simple transaction gradually becomes something more, Lilith is faced with a terrifying realization: It’s dangerous to wander into the clutches of a vampire… and in a place already suffering a god’s wrath, more dangerous still to fall in love with one.
The author states that both Lilith and Vale will become part of the next book in this story, which makes sense seeing as I don't remember either Lilith or Vale in the first installment. Here's what I do know. In this world, the vampire clans are divided into the House of Shadows, the House of Blood, and the House of Night. We know that vampires were created by the heretic goddess Nyaxia after she broke away from the Gods of the White Pantheon. Vale was once a General of the House of Night which is broken into Hiaj and Rishan. The Rishan have wings.
Lilith is a really amazing character. She has put the fact that she will likely died no matter if she finds a cure or not, has trained herself as a scientist after her father died of the plague, and now she has to find a way to save Mina even if she never sees her sister again. While Lilith is looking for a cure, the book itself is broken into Roses 1-6. Six Scorched Roses is the authors shortest book. But if you're into love stories with absolutely heaping amounts of longing, socially awkward brilliant heroines, grumpy vampiric heroes, some crazy god-action, and, of course, lots of rumination the nature of death, this book is for you.
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