It just feels wrong to believe that this is it. There are so many things left that were incomplete, and with the heartbreak of loosing such beloved characters. The series was really great, but again I was left wanting more than the epilogue of Embers last words in the book. Maybe this is the beginning of what is to come relating to this series, with a hopeful continuation that leads to a series to complete this one? IDK, and I suppose time will tell. I haven’t read her new series, “Savage Lands,” yet. I cannot see SMB leaving the readers with a book that leaves so many characters without a HEA. Yes I understand there will always have to be some, but again that leads back to everything that happened in this book. Also, how will the fae and humans come together. Again, I just felt wanting when the book ended. This series may be closed, but I feel like another series should follow. Will our favorite pirate return? There are still so many missing things in this book that have me wanting more, that it doesn’t seem right that this book is it.

Will Cooper find a way to lengthen, what seems to be his new mates life, as she is human. Will Eli and Ember have children? I would love to hear more about that. With all of the life altering tragedy’s that have come into each of their lives. How Kennedy and newly changed Lars will rule their kingdoms with all of these new changes, with all of their loss, healing. To see him gain his beast back would help him gain back something that was stripped from him during his life altering imprisonment. I’m sure that it isn’t just me that wants to see him finally heal by regaining that missing piece of his soul. She is mated, and He has FINALLY fallen in love, at least I hope so. Also, can the freaking link between her and Torin be broke already. She needs her father, as going insane is hereditary, and the story that Lars warned her of regarding her being a Dey. Then there is Ember, and how she battles with the demon side of herself. I would love for her to come to Ember and Lars in the “dreams” that Ember had of her in SMB first series of this collection.

In past books, they both feel he is her true parent, but neither will admit it, so both of them keep with the uncle and niece line of thinking. I wasn’t to hear him tell her he loves her. Lars did his best to keep her at a certain arms length in fear that he may not truly be her father, but they know the truth now, so this is a family that I truly would love to hear how that develops, and what this might mean for them. They were as close as he would allow them to be before Fiona and Piper. I really want to hear how their relationships come together and develop over time. When the book ended, I felt it was left incomplete.

City in embers stacey marie brown