The author portrayed the heroine - Bree in such a way, that to me she was not likeable at all. However, I was very curious of how the author would bring the heroine around and redeem her before my eyes! (note: until the end of the story I couldn’t be warmed to her, regardless of how nice she turned out to be...😔) Now at the beginning, we are supposed to like Eason because he is presented as this great guy. Especially as Jessica is treating him awfully so we root for him. However, Bree wasn't likable at all. And for me, she stayed that way until the end of the book. I just couldn't transition my feeling as the story progressed..I couldn't care for her. Same with their romance. Sure, I dislike the dead ex trope, duh.. but I am not sold on their love. It is all so very convenient!!!

Our bond might have been forged through tragedy, but our love flourished through patience, genuine respect, and understanding.’ I’m terrified that, if we keep screaming into the past, the future is going to be nothing but an echo.” Wow, just wow. I’m pretty speechless after reading this one. Aly Martinez is just amazing, one of the best storytellers there is, period. I don’t know how she does it, but she gets me every. single. time! When I think I have it figured out, she throws me for a loop, and she does it so seamlessly, I just never see it coming! It’s important to mention that as Bree and Eason finally find themselves starting to heal from the fire and Rob and Jessica’s deaths. *SPOILER INCOMING* They find proof that Rob and Jessica were months deep into a very illicit, sexual affair. Eason lashes out, both are thwarted into feelings of anger following months of grief and sadness. Both Jessica and Rob were NOT who thought they were. ( Well I mean, I expected this from Jessica but I digress ) and Eason now faces the possibility that Luna is not his biological child, but rather Jessica and Rob’s love child. Old Woman: Truth and courage ARE purpose and strength. They are the roots of everything powerful. Everything spiritual. When you keep your truth in front of you and have the courage to keep moving toward it, through anything that arises, you live at your best.I didn’t love the ending because I really felt that Davyna would be a good ruler and her father wanted this for her so I was surprised she gave it up so willingly.

It's blind leading blind kinda story from then on. They're both devastated, heartbroken, terrified of the future, sad and angry,. Only no one is left to take their anger out at, so it smoulders like Embers in the ash. If you receive others as worthy, lovable, spiritual creations - perfect just they way they are - you get to see the highest possible version of who you are. You get to be that. Experience that. And you become a gift to the world. My job is to choose what appears. Easy to say but hard to do, to get out of the way enough to allow the energy to flow. Life isn't something you leave home to do. It's what you accomplish within the walls of your haven. That's what allows you to greet the world with an open heart and reach out and embrace living in all its richness, variety and staggering wonder. It was a whole hell of a rollercoaster ride which i was glad I rode. But damn, what was that ending? I hate it, girl!! Please give us some cute moments in book 2.No sólo tienen que lidear con la tragedia, sino con más descubrimientos que no sabían de sus parejas. Davyna wants to find out who was her biological father when her late father said she have to find who she was and what she really was. Davyna is self-discovering and knowing what's like to feel having powers which was depthless. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to read Hidden Beneath The Embers as an ARC reader, however the opinions and thoughts are strictly my own. Old Woman: The illusion that what we see is all there is. That this physical world is the real one. But carved into my soul for the rest of my days would be the earth-shattering realization that the woman in my arms wasn’t my wife.