Six Scorched Roses was an incredible novella from the Crowns of Nyaxia world, and I was so glad to be swept away to this dark world again.

Quite often, a novella feels too short, but I don't know what it was about Six Scorched Roses, but it felt like a full-length novel. The world-building is so well done, bringing the darkness and how desolate it is for Lilith and those who have been cursed. As awful as it is for the people living there, Carissa Broadbent has given life, albeit a bleak one to the world they're living (and dying) in.

I listened to the audiobook of this novella and absolutely loved Amanda Leigh Cobb's narration and how her storytelling swept me away once more to this world and whilst Lilith and Vale are new characters, I love how intrinsically woven Vale especially is into what we know from The Serpent and the Wings of Night. He's an example of the utter darkness and violence that is expected of a vampire, but I loved how there was more to him. How he craved knowledge and I like how Lilith's sheer determination to help her sister and townsmen intrigues him and draws him out to grow fascinated, friendly and then love the human who'd become his little mouse.

I adored this novella, and now I need to get the physical copy and will be, of course, lost to book two soon. I highly recommend Carissa Broadbent to anyone who loves Anne Rice and others similar to her in this genre.