This review was originally posted on It Starts at Midnight First, a brief look at what we're getting into. Please note the lack of information that I have for you on this most basic of summaries:Hallie and her sister live on a farm... somewhere. Their dad died and now they run this big farm. Her sister, Marthe, is pregnant, and her husband is off in a war that just ended. A veteran named Heron comes along and Hallie lets him stay to help since they are kind of not doing great on their own with t...

I was hoping to finish this, and I tried but this was just.... Odd. Hope to maybe one day finish it.

This was a DNF at 40% for me. The writing style was actually quite good and the premise was interesting but basically NOTHING was happening and the story was dragging along. I think it could make a cool Tim Burton film or something but as a book it just wasn't working for me. Might go back to it one day not sure.

Full Review on The Candid CoverAn Inheritance of Ashes is a dystopian novel with a twist! It’s got a unique fantasy/paranormal/sci-fi concept, a dramatic pair of sisters, and an inherited farm. This book takes from basically every genre to create one whirlwind of a book.I really enjoyed the “end of a war” concept in An Inheritance of Ashes. Typically, when I read a dystopian, the book is about a current war, not the aftermath of one. This book is filled with Twisted Things, a Wicked God, and var...

It’s been several days since I finished this book and I still don’t know how I feel about it. I certainly felt things a few times but it wasn’t quite what I expected. I think 2.5 stars fits best. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it, it was just ok. That cover is gorgeous though – love it! The story is about sisters Hallie and Marthe and their struggle to keep the family farm by themselves. They’re waiting for Marthe’s husband to return from the war with the Wicked God when another vet

***Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***An Inheritance of Ashes by Leah BobetPublisher: Clarion BooksPublication Date: October 6, 2015Rating: 2 starsSource: eARC from EdelweissSummary (from Goodreads):The strange war down south—with its rumors of gods and monsters—is over. And while sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to maintain their family farm.When Hallie hires a veteran to help them, the war comes home in ways...

An Inheritance of Ashes is up my alley in so many ways, and it delivered on every front. It’s about two sisters who cannot find a way both to run their jointly-owned farm and to relate easily and kindly to each other. It’s about the bravery of leaving and the bravery of staying to fight, and the ways people get those things terribly wrong. It’s about the stories we tell about ourselves and our ability to escape from those stories. It’s about the aftermath of a war and the wounds it leaves in peo...

When the world has already ended and the war against a Mad God has already been fought and won, a sixteen-year old struggles to deal with her family and community.Hallie lives on the family farm with her heavily pregnant sister Marthe. They're not getting along, because Marthe's husband has not returned from the War where the Mad God was killed and that's placing a lot of pressure on their already strained relationship. Which is only one of a long history of strained relationships in this sad fa...

A wonderfully written story filled with rich characters and emotional depth.

I received this book via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.Uhm. Messy. An inheritance of ashes is a messy mix of good ideas there weren't put together as they should have. There are good elements and good ideas but they are so poorly developed that the result was a mess. The relationship between Marthe and Hallie was one of the worst things about this book. Marthe is a complete asshole for most of the book, while Hallie spends half of it feeling sorry for herself and whining about ever...

Scholastic Canada sent me the ARC of this (they are co-publishing with Clarion in the US). I adored the writing in ABOVE, Bobet's first novel, and so was certainly willing to give this a shot, even though my reaction to the first handful of pages was: "Gee, gorgeous, but I don't know if I'm in the mood for a gritty contemporary set on a family farm that's -- OH WAIT." At that point the bird hit the window, and then caught fire. If I had been paying attention to those first pages -- or the cover,...

WHAT WHO IS THIS WHAT WHY HUH BUT WHEN WHAT WAIT WHAT HOW WHO WHAT IS HAPPENING??????That's just me the whole time.

4.5 stars.

This and other reviews are on my site My Friends Are FictionMy Thoughts: I had heard nothing about this book when I requested it and after realizing it was fantasy I was sold on reading it. I found An Inheritance of Ashes to be a really slow paced, atmospheric and eerie. When I say slow paced I don’t mean boring at all- more the feel of the book was slow (like Mindy McGinnis’ Not a Drop to Drink).The story takes place right after a war with The Wicked One and his Twisted Things have ravished th...

The story takes place in the south where a war between humans, The Wicked God and Twisted Things has just ended. While sisters, Hallie and Martha, wait for Martha's husband to return, with winter coming on they decide to hire a veteran to help with the farm.I had a hard time getting into this book, I'm not going to lie. There was a whole lot that didn't come together for me. The pacing was slow, my mind kept wondering and I lost interest easily. I had questions while reading the book and after f...

*September 2015 : This book was received in exchange of an honest review.* *4 stars* This was not what I was expecting. It's very Stephen king's "The mist". Right from the beginning we're thrown into a world where a war against the wicked God and his twisted things has just ended. At first, I was very confused with what was going on. Who was this wicked God? What were these twisted things? The twisted things were absolutely eerie and terrifying. Like Stephen Kings "the mist" these creatures

4.5/5An Inheritance of Ashes is like a future post-apocalyptic Wild West story. It follows Halfrida Hoffman, half owner of Roadstead Farm. She works the farm with her sister who is pregnant and her husband never returned from the war. See the world is tormented by creatures known as Wicked Things. No one knows where they came from and if one touches you horrible things happen like your skin burning off. While the War is supposedly over, these creatures are definitely from the Wicked God and they...

I just . . . I just . . . There's so much . . . It's just . . . Listen. I've tried three times to describe this book, and it's just not happening. This is without a doubt one of the most interesting, layered, well-written books I've read all year. There's a LOT going on here, but it's all going well. What ties together all the bits of the plot: the family drama, the war, the demons, the small-town power struggle, is that the characters are amazing. The descriptions of ordinary life on the farm a...

If you like a bleak, gray (really gray), desolate world where all the characters are angry/raging, sad/depressed, afraid, and have no hope than THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. :D Fill me up with a little cheer, why don't you? Typically if the tone of a book is this angry and black & white, than my feelings become like a chameleon and I end up feeling the same way about the book too. This book was strange in a bad way. It almost didn't make sense. There's this rip in the world where these other crea

Creepy, homey, magicalThis is the second time I've read this book... The first time was when it was first published, and since then, this book has lived in the back of my head, quietly talking to me. The emotional beats are so resonant. The setting is amazing: creepy, homey, magical. On this read through, I got out the maps a dozen times and googled park acreage in Detroit. I have made up my mind as to where Roadstead Farm is set, on the Detroit River.