📚A light in the flame – A masterpiece and book 2 review
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I am back with the second book in the series like I told you guys I would. Sometime last week, I was done reading the first book in the series, Flesh and Fire by Jennifer L. Armentrout. It is a fantasy/ romance book, commonly known as romantasy.
I got asked a question some days back about my fondness for fantasy romance books and I stilled for a moment because I have been doing it for so long, I forgot why I did it. Or why I was suddenly in my era of reading romantasy books. It all started with The Cruel Prince by Holly Black in 2023 and ever since that series—and me somehow delving into a fantasy book—I have not looked back. That was where it all started, and maybe if you’d include some wattpad werewolves and vampire books in 2020. The answer was just at my fingertips and even now, it’s still a bit difficult to explain. I love romance books, it is my go-to-go genre of books, I don’t really mind if it’s spicy or not, I will read it. But there’s something about mixing it and fantasy together, it is wild and immersive, it is addictive and drives you to want to understand the world building and the complexity of the story the more. The same can also be said for some dark romance books, as there are also some books that aren’t fantasy that will have you at a corner some random time, re-thinking and going over every single thing and scene you read in it. It has been a very very long time since I read a dark romance book, years and now, speaking of it — I miss it.
Back to a light in a flame. I did a review on the first book and this is the second. One thing I love about this book series is the cover. The cover is uniquely beautiful and just intriguing. It was the first thing that caught my attention last year. I think I have mentioned this before in some of my previous posts but most of the books I read are as a result of my soul connecting at first sight with a book. I hardly start a book from recommendations. I do, but it’s rare.
The light in a flame continues the first book, a shadow in the ember where Nyktos discovers that Seraphena has an ember of life in her. This is after he realizes that Seraphena had lied to him and his court and had planned to kill him. The book begins with her speaking with a fate and him revealing and speaking about a prophecy that connects to her. And then, the story of Sotoria is told again. The woman who ran away from the primal of death and fell off the cliff of sorrow, to her death. The primal of death had experienced love at first sight when he saw Sotoria in the mortal realm and although people ran from where he was or shivered in fear, he didn’t really care and really wanted to approach Sotoria but he was met with the same reaction. Kolis felt intense pain when he realized she had ran and fell to her death because of him. He begged his brother, Eythos, the primal of life to bring Sotoria back to life but he refused saying something about it affecting the realm and his inability to perform something just because he can. Out of rage, disappointment, heartbreak, sorrow and love, Kolis performed something that had never been done and was forbidden and swapped embers with his brother, and became the primal of life and his brother, the primal of death. Which caused an imbalance to the world because one who was created of life and the other of death could not completely be erased from their position. This set the world into a drastic shift, causing chaos and resulting in an imbalance.
Kolis brought Sotoria back to life, to be obsessed with her, he loved her very much so, but it became twisted and something Sotoria could not bear. She never loved him, coming back to life wasn’t something she wanted but he had done that, all for him to claim her as his when she didn’t want any of that or him. And then, for the second time she died. Her soul hidden away so that Kolis doesn’t get his hands on it. But Seraphena realizes she is Sotoria, her soul resides in her, causing another wild length of events. Kolis finds out about Seraphena, but his nephew, Nyktos has already been married to her. It doesn’t matter though, as he is the king of the gods and is known for abusing his power and doing all sorts of atrocious things.
It just gets better and better. You think the book one is good and then you read the book two and you realize the first book can’t compare in any way. And you go further and realize you were wrong, there is so much better.
Still reading book 3, and there’s this sadness looming in my heart. The book series is just made of 4 books and I am so close to finishing it. I don’t want it to end.
Anyways, I hope you pick it up and start reading it with me. It is a very wonderful book series and I highly recommend. It would be lovely having someone to discuss it with on here;)
Thanks for reading.
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