WARNING: SPOILERS Man what a ride this book was! I was fortunate enough to borrow Embers and Echoes from my library only weeks after finishing Wildefire. I will doubtless go down this road multiple times in this review, but Colt Halliday.Is.A.Massive.Asshat. I never really liked him, always had a sense that something was off and just generally wrong with him. And this book proves it. Not only did he lead Ash on a path of destruction which ended in death and destruction, he has this insane idea. Near the end of the book, when we journey to the Cloak Netherworld, it is revealed that Ash, Eve and Rose are actually the same person spilt in three. Colt has the insane idea that after he reunites them into one she'll just love him like she used to. Newsflash, Trickster, love doesn't work like that. This time around Ash journeys to Miami and finds new friends in Wes, an Aztec God of the night(more than just friends, but more on that in a minute) and Aurora, a winged Goddess of the Dawn. And new enemy in the form of Lesley Vanderblit's backup team of Bleak, Thorne, Rey and Lily all Goddess and Gods who have called themselves The Four Seasons. Who quite frankly, where a bunch of wimps compared to Ashline. Now back to Wes and Ash. They were so freaking good together! And Karsten just had to have them part like that..crying again just thinking about it! THAT IS NOT OKAY. GET BACK TOGETHER NOW! And oh the unneeded deaths. Aurora and Raja and ugh. Is Ash destined to have no freaking friends? And EVE. Fucking hell. Just when I thought she couldn't get worse, she kidnaps Raja's baby Saga and joins Colt. Just DIE. Finally I want to talk about the Cloak. I never thought they were the true enemy, and this book confirmed it. They're really just trying to allow mortals and Gods to live together in peace. Basically, Embers and Echoes is a wild ride of Ash discovering more of her powers as the Volcano Goddess Pele that she is, meeting more fellow Gods and Goddess and trying to stop both Colt and The Four Season from waving paths of destruction. 10/10, I highly recommend it! Can't wait to pick up Afterglow! Not that good.Colt is a bad guy, what the hell? Hahhaha xD. I was just shocked, I didn't expected it. I guess that's a good thing.And then...bam! There's Rose, her sister. And everything just keeps surprising me so ting, I didn't like it. Though it's quite good.But almost everyone died. What's up with that? And Wes' left. In my opinion, that means he isn't really "IN LOVE" with Ash. Then Ash had rescued Rose and Eve and in return, they betrayed her. Again, what's yo with that? And then I learned that the "volcano goddess-Pele" is a single entity, what the hell?Too many surprises...you can't drop it just like that, it's too overwhelming that I didn't enjoy just trying to ponder things.
