Total pages in book: 247
Estimated words: 231436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1157(@200wpm)___ 926(@250wpm)___ 771(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 231436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1157(@200wpm)___ 926(@250wpm)___ 771(@300wpm)
“‘Fate just sees all the possible outcomes of free will.’”
A SOUL OF ASH AND BLOOD
“‘You can call me that. Or you can call me death, whichever you prefer.’”
“I wasn’t a good man. I was just hers.”
“When I was around her, I didn’t think of the past or the future. I simply lived.”
“I would come back. I would look for her. And if she wasn’t here? I would find her again. Sooner rather than later. She would be mine.”
“Again, I couldn’t help but think…that in a different life, I would’ve been built for this.”
“Poppy…she was worth the risk. To give her a chance to actually live.”
“‘Are you going to put some clothing on?’…‘Do I need to?’ ‘I mean, it’s your dick hanging out, not mine.’”
“It was too damn easy to…to live right alongside Poppy. And, gods, I wanted that. Badly.”
“I knew this was real. What was between us. What she felt for me. What I felt for her. This. It was real.”
A FIRE IN THE FLESH
“I knew nothing bad could reach, scare, or disturb me here. Because I wasn’t alone. A wolf sat on the bank of my lake, one more silver than white. He watched. And I knew I was safe.”
“Because I loved him. I was in love with him. And right or wrong, I would do anything for him.”
“‘I’m nothing without you, liessa,’ he whispered as he started to slip away, and the embers hummed in my chest. ‘And there will be nothing without you.’”
“‘I will always find you, Sera.’”
“‘Even if I’m not looking at you, you are still all I see.’”
“‘I never wanted until you.’”
“‘I’ve lived because of you.’”
“I knew I was not a part of the cycle of life. I was the cycle. The beginning. Middle. The last breath before the end. Death’s steadfast companion. I was Life.”
“He was the nightmare that had become my dream. The calm in my storm. My strength when I was weak. The breath when I couldn’t breathe. He was more than my King. My husband. Ash was the other half of my heart and soul.”
“‘But I still fell, Sera. Hard and fast. Irrevocably. Even without my kardia, I fell in love with you.’”
“‘You’re simply my first, Sera, and you will be my last.’”
PLAYLISTS
Have you ever had moments of your life that just seem as if they should be set to music? Sometimes, I feel that way about my visions. Occasionally, I even hear notes floating on the breeze while the scene plays out in my mind. Poppy and Casteel’s and Sera and Nyktos’s journeys are like symphonies in themselves, but the beat and tempo and cadence of each milestone in their lives is a perfect complement to some actual musical scores out there.
Here are some that I think you should check out and tie back to what happened in the stories of their lives.
FROM BLOOD AND ASH:
Mr. Brightside by The Killers
The Hand That Feeds by Nine Inch Nails
Coming Undone by Korn
Heavy in your Arms by Florence and the Machine
Stand By Me by Ki: Theory
Freak On a Leash by Korn
Story of My Life by One Direction
I Am the Storm by Ramin Djawadi
Hunger of the Pine by alt-J
Carrion Flowers by Chelsea Wolfe
Everybody Knows by Sigrid
If I Had a Heart by Fever Ray
Castle (The Huntsman, Winter’s War Version) by Halsey
Running Up That Hill by Placebo
Spoils of War, Pt. 1 by Ramin Djawadi
Hunter (featuring John Mark McMillan) by RIAYA
A KINGDOM OF FLESH AND FIRE:
Hunger of the Pine by alt-J
If I Had a Heart by Fever Ray
Legend Has It by Run the Jewels
Heathens by Twenty One Pilots
You Don’t Own Me by Grace
Something in the Shadows by Amy Stroup
Animals by Maroon 5
Hunter (featuring John Mark McMillan) by RIAYA
Deadcrush by alt-J
Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones
Spark by Tori Amos
Precious Things by Tori Amos
Shut Up and Dance by Walk the Moon
In Every Dream Home by Roxy Music
What I’ve Done by Linkin Park
Running Up That Hill by Placebo
No Light, No Light by Florence + the Machine
Everybody Knows by Sigrid
Take it All by Ruelle
I’m Afraid of Americans by David Bowie
Castle by Halsey
The Outsider by A Perfect Circle
Young Forever by Jay-Z ft. Mr. Hudson
Freak on a Leash by Korn
Suga Suga by Baby Bash
Elastic Heart by Sia ft. The Weeknd and Diplo
Flesh Blood by Eels
Wrong by Max ft. Lil Uzi Vert
Grey Blue Eyes by Dave Matthews
Bottom of the River by Delta Rae
Hurt by Johnny Cash
Cry Little Sister by Gerard McMann
Keep Hope Alive by The Crystal Method
Welcome to the Party by Diplo
Scars to Your Beautiful by Alessia Cara
Castle on the Hill by Ed Sheeran
Say You Won’t Let Go by James Arthur
Titanium by David Guetta ft. Sia
Set the Fire to the Third Bar by Snow Patrol
OTEP by Head
The Hanging Tree by James Newton Howard ft. Jennifer Lawrence
Just Say Yes by Snow Patrol
Cosmic Love by Florence + The Machine
The Bells by Ramin Djawadi
The Last War by Ramin Djawdi