A solid start to the Flesh and Fire series. I love Sera and Ash, I think they’re great characters and like the Blood and Ash series I can see this story being another guilty pleasure of mine. Obviously there are some grammatical errors and repetitive jokes/conversations that are a theme across Armentrout’s books which I hope she works on soon. 

I love how alike Sera and Poppy are and that it’s clear the stabbiness is genetic. And clearly they both have similar tastes in sarcastic, cocky, damaged men. I hope Nyktos and Sera will quickly resolve their issues cause it is very clear they need to be together. Others will most likely suffer the annoying back and forth if they continue to fight their feelings.

In a lot of ways this is a Persephone/Hades retelling and it’s own I enjoyed given Sera isn’t a virgin and Ash is. And talk about the spicy scenes! I thoroughly enjoyed the sexual tension and intimate scenes between the two. It’s a bit jarring that it kind of started as them trying to solve the mystery of mortals murdered by gods to emotional conflict in Illyseium. 
I hope to see Sera develop more and work through the years of emotional trauma and neglect and find herself. Can’t wait for The War of Two Queens and the The Light in the Flame!