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The Temple of Frozen Fates
The Temple of Frozen Fates is the second installment in the Chronicles of Ambrose.Caelum has spent decades searching for the truths that lie in Ambrose’s long and forgotten history. Upon discovering an ancient abandoned temple, he realizes that all his prayers have been answered. There’s only one the temple lies in the forbidden mortal kingdom. There’s a treaty in place, and no Lord or Lady in their right minds would give him the funds he needs to explore it. When the Lord of Dolan surprisingly complies, it’s finally his chance to uncover long-lost secrets.
Halcyon is the next in line to lead her city after her father’s retirement. When his parting gift is a betrayal to her city—and Ambrose—she finds herself in the forbidden mortal kingdom with a handsome, but eager, archeologist. She is determined to right the wrongs of her father, and he is adamant to recover as many artifacts and pieces of history that he can.
With a budding attraction, a new bond that has only existed in legend, and the pressing threat of the mortal Dragon Riders, will they give in to their desires when their futures could never align?
This book is intended for adult audiences.
Halcyon is the next in line to lead her city after her father’s retirement. When his parting gift is a betrayal to her city—and Ambrose—she finds herself in the forbidden mortal kingdom with a handsome, but eager, archeologist. She is determined to right the wrongs of her father, and he is adamant to recover as many artifacts and pieces of history that he can.
With a budding attraction, a new bond that has only existed in legend, and the pressing threat of the mortal Dragon Riders, will they give in to their desires when their futures could never align?
This book is intended for adult audiences.
340 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2024
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August 22, 2024
Book two did not disappoint. Action ✔️ Adventure ✔️ Romance ✔️ Bad ass educated women ✔️✔️ This book gave me Indiana Jones vibes but with more romance. I can see this series being like Throne of Glass where it's multiple storylines that merge into one big picture. I can't wait to see where it goes....I'm keeping my fingers crossed we get more Galen in book three.
September 2, 2024
30+ yr old fmc? THANK YOU 🫶🏻 Halcyon gives us everything we could ever want in a heroine: confidence, intelligence, power, directness, and a lil bit of murderous tendencies (for vengeance purposes, ya know). Also, DRAGONS.
I walked into this not even realizing it was book 2 until I went to start it—so happy to discover I can go back and read book 1 without any real spoilers! Which I absolutely will be doing; the writing is beautiful and concise, the story is strong and perfectly paced, the characters are well-rounded and authentic, the chemistry and spice is SPICING. love love love
Tysm Jennifer for trusting me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! I’ll be sticking around to see what happens next 😍
I walked into this not even realizing it was book 2 until I went to start it—so happy to discover I can go back and read book 1 without any real spoilers! Which I absolutely will be doing; the writing is beautiful and concise, the story is strong and perfectly paced, the characters are well-rounded and authentic, the chemistry and spice is SPICING. love love love
Tysm Jennifer for trusting me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! I’ll be sticking around to see what happens next 😍
September 30, 2024
Action 🗡️✅
Quest ✅
Dragons. DRAGONS 🐉✅
Badass FMC ✅
Fated mates 👩❤️👨✅
Environmental magic ❄️✅
This is exactly the series I’d recommend to anyone dipping their toes into fantasy for the first time 🔝
I immediately fell in love with the characters, who are all well fleshed out and the FMC is smart, fierce and badass.
I love how the author gradually intertwines the storylines, building anticipation as everything starts to come together. I’m especially excited for the next book, where it looks like we’ll finally see the characters unite and work together.
If I had one small critique, it would be the romance, which felt a bit too much like insta-love for my taste. Still, the balance of spice is spot on—just enough without overdoing it.
!A huge thank you to the author for sending me the ARC! ❤️
Quest ✅
Dragons. DRAGONS 🐉✅
Badass FMC ✅
Fated mates 👩❤️👨✅
Environmental magic ❄️✅
This is exactly the series I’d recommend to anyone dipping their toes into fantasy for the first time 🔝
I immediately fell in love with the characters, who are all well fleshed out and the FMC is smart, fierce and badass.
I love how the author gradually intertwines the storylines, building anticipation as everything starts to come together. I’m especially excited for the next book, where it looks like we’ll finally see the characters unite and work together.
If I had one small critique, it would be the romance, which felt a bit too much like insta-love for my taste. Still, the balance of spice is spot on—just enough without overdoing it.
!A huge thank you to the author for sending me the ARC! ❤️
October 3, 2024
What an addition. Jennifer is slowly weaving story lines together and I CANNOT wait to see how she continues to build this world.
Halcyon and Cal are just lovely. Halcyon continually fights her Ladyship duties vs her growing feelings for Cal.. to little avail thankfully.
We found out about the mortal king collecting objects in book 1 and this book brings us face to face with the repercussions of that. On an 'illegal' quest into the mortal lands we find one of those objects and action and adventure ensues.
We see a few familiar faces near the end as the strings of this story come together.
Also. Please bring us more Galen in the next book.
*I received an eARC*
Halcyon and Cal are just lovely. Halcyon continually fights her Ladyship duties vs her growing feelings for Cal.. to little avail thankfully.
We found out about the mortal king collecting objects in book 1 and this book brings us face to face with the repercussions of that. On an 'illegal' quest into the mortal lands we find one of those objects and action and adventure ensues.
We see a few familiar faces near the end as the strings of this story come together.
Also. Please bring us more Galen in the next book.
*I received an eARC*
November 3, 2024
I was honored to read this book as an ARC.
What I Enjoyed
The cast of characters is delightful. Each character is vibrant and unique in personality and skill, and I found the leading characters to be sympathetic. It was easy to cheer them on in their accomplishments.
The setting is enjoyable and immersive. I had a clear image in my mind as the characters traversed from fantasy cityscapes to abandoned temples. I would love to adventure in these landscapes myself! I wanted to learn more about the setting's history, and the drive for answers kept me reading to the end.
Where I Struggled
As I just said, the writer has a talent for immersive setting and strong characters. In fact, I so badly wanted to read more about those. The three supporting adventuring characters clearly have fascinating backstories, abilities, and relationships. I'm hopeful that maybe there's a sequel for two of them in the future? But in this particular book, the narration seemed much less interested in exploring those characters and questions than I did.
Pacing was at times a struggle, in my opinion for two reasons. One, there is a bit of a "show don't tell" problem. Since the book is written in dual first person perspective, it makes sense that we're going to have internal monologue and firsthand explanations of the leading characters' thoughts and feelings. But considering their opinions about most things rarely changed, I don't think I had to be reminded nearly so often. Specifically about their opinion of each other's physical traits. I get it, you find each other hot and smart. I promise I remember. And when there was a change or new information, it was more or less hand-fed to me rather than demonstrated in character action. Or if it WAS demonstrated in character action, the narrating character would then reiterate and explain the point to me. I can promise you no reader will be confused, at least!
Two, the writing had different priorities than the genre. I knew this book had spice going in, don't get me wrong - but I didn't realize how high of a proportion the spice would be. This isn't a book for fantasy readers who enjoy spicy scenes; it's a book for spice readers who enjoy magical settings. Obviously that's not a bad thing! But I personally found it frustrating because, in my opinion, the lead characters' complete preoccupation with their attraction to each other started cutting into and taking attention away from other aspects of the story I wanted to be interested in. The best way I can describe it is that the fantasy parts felt like they were written for YA - every plot point explained as it happened and then repeated for clarity, every setting easily recognizable, every adventure familiar. But this obviously isn't a YA novel, so I think this was done because the priority for the story was to get to the spice scenes without having to explore world building or plot details.
Super Mild Spoiler
This book literally does the "they only had two days until retirement" trope. Be so for real right now.
Serious Spoilers
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I don't think every reader will agree with me on this one, but I'm frustrated by every aspect of the ending that didn't have to do with Cal and Hal's love for each other. That part was delightful, but there was no question of it happening because these two are obsessed with each other.
One, it felt like the original stakes of the expedition completely got dropped. This troupe managed to get in armed combat with the Mortal King's dragon army and when they get home... no one gets put on trial for endangering the kingdom's safety? You spent three straight chapters at the beginning telling me the punishment could be execution! Two, Hal's career decision really bothered me. The ending of the book wants me to believe that it would be impossible for her to be a governing politician and a researcher at the same time. But the beginning and the middle of the book was filled with evidence from both descriptive action and character dialogue of the exact opposite. Her father was described as a mostly cowardly and lazy ruler who did the minimum needed to maintain status quo, and had no positive relationships with the working class. And everyone was talking about how she was the opposite, how she's a natural leader, how she treats everyone with more respect. This made it really hard to believe that she couldn't both be a researching Dragon Rider and a monarch between her sheer capability and the support of her cousin and friends. I read this book thinking I was reading the rise of a badass queen who would lead the country to a new era... and then she basically decided to take permanent sabbatical leave, because suddenly in the last four chapters she has a revelation that she didn't get to choose to be queen. Again, I don't think every reader is going to agree with me here, but it felt sudden and out of character to me.
In Summary
If you love spice that's based on passionate attraction and adoration with a magical flavor, this very well could be the book you're looking for. If you're looking for a fantasy novel with spice, this isn't it. Either way you will be drawn to the characters and the intrigue of a setting filled with possibilities that I wish I had more of a chance to explore.
What I Enjoyed
The cast of characters is delightful. Each character is vibrant and unique in personality and skill, and I found the leading characters to be sympathetic. It was easy to cheer them on in their accomplishments.
The setting is enjoyable and immersive. I had a clear image in my mind as the characters traversed from fantasy cityscapes to abandoned temples. I would love to adventure in these landscapes myself! I wanted to learn more about the setting's history, and the drive for answers kept me reading to the end.
Where I Struggled
As I just said, the writer has a talent for immersive setting and strong characters. In fact, I so badly wanted to read more about those. The three supporting adventuring characters clearly have fascinating backstories, abilities, and relationships. I'm hopeful that maybe there's a sequel for two of them in the future? But in this particular book, the narration seemed much less interested in exploring those characters and questions than I did.
Pacing was at times a struggle, in my opinion for two reasons. One, there is a bit of a "show don't tell" problem. Since the book is written in dual first person perspective, it makes sense that we're going to have internal monologue and firsthand explanations of the leading characters' thoughts and feelings. But considering their opinions about most things rarely changed, I don't think I had to be reminded nearly so often. Specifically about their opinion of each other's physical traits. I get it, you find each other hot and smart. I promise I remember. And when there was a change or new information, it was more or less hand-fed to me rather than demonstrated in character action. Or if it WAS demonstrated in character action, the narrating character would then reiterate and explain the point to me. I can promise you no reader will be confused, at least!
Two, the writing had different priorities than the genre. I knew this book had spice going in, don't get me wrong - but I didn't realize how high of a proportion the spice would be. This isn't a book for fantasy readers who enjoy spicy scenes; it's a book for spice readers who enjoy magical settings. Obviously that's not a bad thing! But I personally found it frustrating because, in my opinion, the lead characters' complete preoccupation with their attraction to each other started cutting into and taking attention away from other aspects of the story I wanted to be interested in. The best way I can describe it is that the fantasy parts felt like they were written for YA - every plot point explained as it happened and then repeated for clarity, every setting easily recognizable, every adventure familiar. But this obviously isn't a YA novel, so I think this was done because the priority for the story was to get to the spice scenes without having to explore world building or plot details.
Super Mild Spoiler
This book literally does the "they only had two days until retirement" trope. Be so for real right now.
Serious Spoilers
.
.
.
.
.
I don't think every reader will agree with me on this one, but I'm frustrated by every aspect of the ending that didn't have to do with Cal and Hal's love for each other. That part was delightful, but there was no question of it happening because these two are obsessed with each other.
One, it felt like the original stakes of the expedition completely got dropped. This troupe managed to get in armed combat with the Mortal King's dragon army and when they get home... no one gets put on trial for endangering the kingdom's safety? You spent three straight chapters at the beginning telling me the punishment could be execution! Two, Hal's career decision really bothered me. The ending of the book wants me to believe that it would be impossible for her to be a governing politician and a researcher at the same time. But the beginning and the middle of the book was filled with evidence from both descriptive action and character dialogue of the exact opposite. Her father was described as a mostly cowardly and lazy ruler who did the minimum needed to maintain status quo, and had no positive relationships with the working class. And everyone was talking about how she was the opposite, how she's a natural leader, how she treats everyone with more respect. This made it really hard to believe that she couldn't both be a researching Dragon Rider and a monarch between her sheer capability and the support of her cousin and friends. I read this book thinking I was reading the rise of a badass queen who would lead the country to a new era... and then she basically decided to take permanent sabbatical leave, because suddenly in the last four chapters she has a revelation that she didn't get to choose to be queen. Again, I don't think every reader is going to agree with me here, but it felt sudden and out of character to me.
In Summary
If you love spice that's based on passionate attraction and adoration with a magical flavor, this very well could be the book you're looking for. If you're looking for a fantasy novel with spice, this isn't it. Either way you will be drawn to the characters and the intrigue of a setting filled with possibilities that I wish I had more of a chance to explore.
September 13, 2024
This was a truly phenomenal read. I really enjoyed it. It is very refreshing to read a book where the FMC is over the age of 30 especially as a reader in her mid 30s. I totally didn't realize this was book 2 in the series but it was still fully able to be read. I loved the action and romance throughout the story. The FMC was confident and intelligent with just the right amount of murdering tendencies. I also love any book with dragons.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 2, 2024
Indiana Jones with dragons and elemental magic? Sign me tf up! Book 2 in Kay’s Chronicles of Ambrose delivers more fun, more action, and more spice. I really enjoyed Halcyon and Cal, what a great dynamic. And the scenes with dragons are so well done! As a long time dragon lover and giant nerd, I pay extra attention to those details, and Kay nailed it! I also appreciate the care she puts into lovable, memorable side characters. I can’t wait for book 3!
November 2, 2024
THIS WAS A 10/10 FOR ME! I thoroughly enjoyed this story. From the relationships and bonds we got to see grow among the characters, to the twist that all the magic brought to the story line. And there are DRAGONS!! The unique bond that is formed between the new queen and her companions on a secret journey is absolutely beautiful. It is the 2nd in a series, but you can totally read it as a stand alone as well. I can not wait to see where this series goes.
October 8, 2024
I really enjoyed this book! This is book 2 in her series but it can be read as a standalone which I LOVE. This book had magic, dragons, romance. Everything I love. I said it before, and I'll say it again; I love that her FMC is over 18 😅 Can't wait to see where the next book takes us, but man, I hope we get more of Galen 😍
*I received an ARC from the author*
*I received an ARC from the author*
October 12, 2024
I thoroughly enjoyed diving back into this world again. Hal was such a fun character to follow. I loved watching her come into her own and grow as a person.
The romance was so sweet and sexy. The action was fun and suspenseful. And dragons! Can't go wrong with sentient dragons.
A thrilling ride that I loved every second of.
The romance was so sweet and sexy. The action was fun and suspenseful. And dragons! Can't go wrong with sentient dragons.
A thrilling ride that I loved every second of.
December 2, 2024
I didn't like Caelum that much. Half the time, he kind of annoyed me. Other than him though, I really loved the story!
I liked that for book 2 it was different characters, but that it still connected with book 1, especially at the end.
I hope there is going to be a third book because these first two have been really good!
I liked that for book 2 it was different characters, but that it still connected with book 1, especially at the end.
I hope there is going to be a third book because these first two have been really good!
September 18, 2024
10/10
🌶️🌶️🌶️
THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME THIS ARC JENNIFER!!!!
Romance. Spice. Magic. Dragons. Secret identity. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED? I ATE this book up and I am obsessed with the characters. It was filled adventure and had such a captivating story. I can’t wait to see what comes next.
🌶️🌶️🌶️
THANK YOU FOR SENDING ME THIS ARC JENNIFER!!!!
Romance. Spice. Magic. Dragons. Secret identity. WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED? I ATE this book up and I am obsessed with the characters. It was filled adventure and had such a captivating story. I can’t wait to see what comes next.
October 6, 2024
This book has everything I look for in a good fantasy. BA female lead, fated mates, dragons, adventure… I loved it! I read these books out of order so I am currently reading book one, but if it’s anything like this book, I will. It be disappointed!
October 13, 2024
For fans of dragons and epic adventures, this book is a must read. The FMC is a total badass, she’s smart and powerful. My fav part was probably the bond between her and her dragon. Overall i loved this book and can’t wait to see what else is next!!
September 11, 2024
This story is so good and full of adventure! It keeps you pulled in. It gives off that perfect blend of Atlantis and Indiana Jones that I absolutely love and wish more books had.
September 25, 2024
The book was such a fun cute read! This is a great romantasy book with all the things everyone loves! Adventure, witches, dragons, environmental magic! The romance was great!! What a fun read!
January 13, 2025
I loved the setting of this book. The adventure and the romance were great. And, even though this book could be read as a standalone, I love that there is crossovers from book 1!
September 15, 2024
To say I was excited to dive back into the world of Ambrose is an understatement, luckily Jennifer Kay did not disappoint as she gave a chance to dive deeper (literally and figuratively) into the world. We follow Halcyon and Caelum on an archeological adventure filled with mystery, dragons, hidden rooms, forbidden love, and of course not enough tents for all. I was getting Indiana jones meats a touch of Elsa (confident frozen 2 Elsa). While I was captivated by our two main characters journey as they grew into themselves and into love with each other, I couldn’t help but notice all the lore and possible foreshadowing of what will occur in the over arching world. So far I have loved Jennifer Kay’s ability to give us individual stories while making me invested in the world.
**I received an ARC**
**I received an ARC**
October 2, 2024
Like Indiana Jones or The Mummy 1999? Like dragons?! Well then this book is for YOU!
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. My archeologist adventure loving heart was having a blast reading the latest book from Jennifer Kay.
I love how each of her books feel like standalones but also how they tie together into a bigger picture. I’m really excited to see where this book goes next and more of our FMC & MMCs journeys with the first books FMC & MMC to come together.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. My archeologist adventure loving heart was having a blast reading the latest book from Jennifer Kay.
I love how each of her books feel like standalones but also how they tie together into a bigger picture. I’m really excited to see where this book goes next and more of our FMC & MMCs journeys with the first books FMC & MMC to come together.
October 8, 2024
I don’t know about you but this book gave Indiana Jones meets Frozen meets GOT. The King is an a$$!
I enjoyed the world and the characters. There was a part in this story where I was frustrated with the fmc and I was yelling at her to let her guard down 😂 In the beginning I was a little confused as to whether Ambrose was a person or place but it quickly was cleared up. If you like spice I will say you will not be disappointed. All in all it was a fun read and I can’t wait for book three.
This was book was an ARC but my opinions are my own.
I enjoyed the world and the characters. There was a part in this story where I was frustrated with the fmc and I was yelling at her to let her guard down 😂 In the beginning I was a little confused as to whether Ambrose was a person or place but it quickly was cleared up. If you like spice I will say you will not be disappointed. All in all it was a fun read and I can’t wait for book three.
This was book was an ARC but my opinions are my own.
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