Review: Snow Like Ashes Novellas (Snow Like Ashes #0.5/2.5)

Icicles Like Kindling (Snow Like Ashes #0.5)
Sara Raasch

Published By: Epic Reads
Publication Date: September 30, 2014
Date Read: January 26, 2020
Genre: YA – Fantasy
Source: Bought
Format: E-Book

I read and loved the first two books in the Snow Like Ashes series years ago when they first released. I was even lucky enough to get an ARC of the final book but I just never came around to reading it. One of the reasons was I just wasn’t ready to say goodbye to this world and the characters. Now I am sat four years after the release of the final book writing this review. I have a huge challenge at the moment of catching up on all of my unfinished series as as it had been so long since I have read the first two books I decided I’d start with the novellas of the series as I hadn’t read them.

Icicles Like Kindling was a super short novella set years before Snow Like Ashes. It really showed an insight into the characters and their relationships and friendships before the events of the series. It was a great way of reminding me of these characters and this world and I enjoyed it. Even though it was super short, I was so involved and invested in these characters and I can’t wait to read the final book in this amazing series.

From Goodreads:
“She was part of Summer, and Summer was part of her, and this land wouldn’t abandon her too.”


Ceridwen Preben, princess of Summer, has spent her life plotting against her brother, Simon, the Summerian king. Simon has embraced the ruling family’s reputation for using their conduit to keep their subjects in a state of bliss, and has spent his reign slowly driving Summer into ruin, filling everyone with carelessness and letting them turn a blind eye to Summer’s rampant — and deadly — slave trade. But Ceridwen refuses to let her kingdom disintegrate, and with the help of her fellow rebel-in-arms, Lekan, she hopes to undo Simon’s lethal dealings.


But when Ceridwen uncovers Simon’s deadliest plot yet, she starts to realize just how deep magic runs — and that even though her kingdom is one of sunlight, with light, there always comes shadows.

After I devoured Icicles Like Kindling, the novella set before the events of book one of the Snow Like Ashes series I dived right into Flames Like Vines. Flames like Vines is a novella set in between books two and three of the Snow Like Ashes series and I really enjoyed this one. It’s fast-paced and action packed and follows the story of Ceridwen, a smaller character from the main series.

I loved seeing Ceridwen’s story and it made me love her so much more. This novella gave me more insight into the summer court and one of the villains of the series. My hatred for Simon deepened so much in this novella but my love with Ceridwen grew. I can’t wait to finally read the final book in this series and see how it all ends for everyone.