A Soul of ASH and Blood: A Blood and ASH Novel: 5

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He is only of one, and it’s far too easy, even for a god and a Primal, to lose themselves if they stay in their animal form for too long.

I didn't know how necessary it was going to be, if it was just going to read like a cash grab, or what. I will say the first three chapters (which I read when JLA released them a while back) still hit hard for me. I'm glad that Cas' was the focus in this book, I felt that during the previous book, his personality didn't shine through as much and he felt static. It’s not horrible to learn how he felt but so repetitive I did not enjoy this book nearly as much as the others. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become another passion for her, right alongside writing, which she plans to do for as long as she can.I also loved seeing Cas’ side of the budding romance between Poppy and him and seeing the conflicted feelings and the angst he was living with. It was just a real emotional moment for Poppy which I kind of wished we could have seen it from her eyes and felt her emotions. She would be pissed, but I’d rather her be angry at me than experience exactly what happened when a Primal lost a hand.

There were also plenty of new scenes that we didn’t get to read in Poppy’s POV (Casteel killing the Duke, Casteel giving cursed guards dignity in death in Macedonia, Casteel and Viktor interactions, meetings between Kieran and Casteel at the Red Pearl, Casteel rushing back to New Haven after Poppy is attacked, Casteel killing Jericho and staking him to the wall, etc.As the story unfolded, we got to see lots of fan favorite moments from FBAA, and scenes that weren’t in FBAA too. If you have any desire to continue reading this series, you have to at least read the ending chapter of this book because there is a major thing that happens to one of the main characters.