Review: From the Ashes (The Phoenix Project Series Book 1) by Candice M Wright

From the Ashes: The Phoenix Project by Candice M. Wright
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Wonderfully Dark

Cameron is dying. She has terminal breast cancer and as a way to help her family after she is gone she has signed up to a secret government project as a test subject. On her death her medical bills will be taken care of and her family will get $1m. She doesn’t have the best relationship with her mother but she adores her 6 year old half brother Charlie with all her heart and she wants him to have a good life.

She’s on a coach in a convoy of several thousand terminal patients like her. They turn up at a small town built to house the subjects and she is place in an apartment with a group of men, due to confusion over her name. She’s had a double mastectomy and is bald due to chemo so she can pass as a sick young man so she hides her identity and finds out she’s been housed with a bunch of criminals.

This wonderfully dark and twisted tale is filled with fascinating characters and a complex plot. It’s filled with hot scenes between Cam and her men, but there is also a great deal of tenderness, friendship and love, amidst the fear of pain and death. You get sucked into the story and wish for Cameron’s happiness because with her life she deserves some.

The end of the book has all sort of information dumped on the reader and I could feel my eyes popping out as the story completely changed direction. I hate cliff hangers but the second book in the duet is due out in April 2020, so I’m not worried about waiting too long. This book also may have ended on a cliff hanger but it was also a very natural break in the story as the plot veered towards something different.

As always, this author captivates and compels the reader to keep on reading just one more page. She creates incredible characters and places them in extraordinary situations and all we have to do is watch with our jaws wide open. Every book I’ve read by this author is outstanding. This book is no exception. I highly recommend you read it!

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