“If you wither, Rose, then I wither with you. One hundred percent.”
⭐️ Infinity stars (and then some) 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Anyone who knows me already knows how obsessed I am with Kellen Kilic and Noella Rose after Bleeding Rose. I went into Bleeding Rose for the magical academy vibes – immediate yes from me, but what I got was so much more than magic and school corridors.
This book reached into my chest, rearranged my heart, and refused to put it back the way it was.
The character work in this is unreal. I already loved this cast, but Weeping Rose somehow deepened every existing relationship while making me fall hard for the newer characters too. The bonds, the sibling dynamics, the complicated parent–child relationships, the found family threads; it all felt tender, raw, and painfully human even in the middle of a Primordial world. Mental health, grief, trauma, duty, and love are handled with a kind of care that feels both gentle and brutally honest. It is healing and devastating in the same breath.
Kellen and Noella absolutely own this book. Their love is feral, reverent, and rooted in choice as much as Fate. The way they speak about each other, fight for each other, and grow alongside each other made me highlight what feels like eighty per cent of the book. I cried more times than I can count, sometimes from the softness, sometimes from the ache, sometimes just from a single line landing exactly where it hurt.
The plot itself is intense and beautifully woven – academy politics, prophecy, war, power, family history – but it never loses sight of the emotional core. Every battle, every lesson, every quiet conversation adds another layer to the question of what it means to live with immense power, immense love, and immense pain all at once. The ending completely took me out. I knew something was coming, but nothing could have prepared me for that. I am going to be in a coma until book three comes out. Send help.
Even if this hadn’t been an ARC read, Weeping Rose would still be an easy top ten read of the year for me. It feels like one of those rare books that understands what it means to break and still choose to keep going. I’m so, so grateful I got to read this early, to live inside this world a little longer, and to keep walking alongside Kellen and Noella.
Thank you, Kyla, for creating them and for pouring so much love into these characters. 🌹⚡️
This book was amazing - I did predict the ending but was still good to read.
I preferred the first book but that’s only because I love reading about people falling in love rather than them already being in love. So I preferred the enemies to lovers vibe of the first book.
There is a lot of affection and constantly talking about how much they love each other which I personally thought was too much and didn’t need to be spoken about every time they talked.
I enjoyed her embracing her powers and the struggles that came with it. I also enjoyed her relationship growing with Aros.
**MAJOR SPOILERS IN MY REVIEW - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED**
I am so pissed off at the ending of this book. There are not enough words to describe this feeling. How dare you! How dare you do that to Ella. 🤬🤬
She'll never be able to come back from murdering her best friends!! It doesn't matter if she wasn't the one in control. She will never be able to forgive herself. Ever. Kellen killing Callan and working through it is NOT the same. For her this would be more along the lines ofcomparing him to murding his siblings from not being in control and then telling him it wasn't his fault... best of luck with that one. 🙄😒
Even her sister said: "I need to thank you both for taking care of my sister. For being the first Primordials to show her kindness. You have no idea how much your friendship means to my sister, and to us as her family who watched her suffer for so long." 😭😭
So.. please tell me how she'll be able to come back from this?? The ONLY way is if Fate can bring them back somehow. Make all that loss at least tolerable... otherwise the ONLY other option is if, upon regaining control again, she incinerates EVERYTHING including Fate. Kellen already told her he would destroy the world for her if it meant she would be okay. I stand by that, if you're not bringing back the best friends... HER ONLY PRIMORDIAL FRIENDS!!! That the whole world needs to burn, and burn so much it affect the words on the page so the last page of the final book looks like the words are burning off and leading to a blank page....
Obviously this is still an amazing book and if it wasn't for that ending, I'd have given 5 stars. Definitely ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in the amount of feelings I have concerning this book ...
Yes, I will be reading the next one but let me tell you, I am also prepared to buy the book and burn it all for Ella too, depending on it's ending. After all, there is no more pain in death. 🔥🔥😤
My poor girl!! 😭😭😭
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Weeping Rose starts shortly after the ending of Bleeding Rose. Ella and Kellen are still going strong, but there are obstacles that get in the way of them living a quiet life.
Aros, for one. He's not the kindest to Ella, and she takes it personally. So much so, that she isn't sure she wants to become the person she's supposed to be.
This had me laughing when Freya and Kellen would speak to each other. Or when Akio, Kellen, and Josefyn were hanging out.
Kellen's love for Ella remained strong, and I love how far he'd go to protect her.
His love for his siblings is still one of the best things about him.
Ella is strong, and though she may not feel like it at times, she doesn't let anything stop her.
I really appreciate the time Kyla has taken to incorporate mental health into her stories. Ella is an incredible, caring character.
The ending really shocked me. I saw one part coming, then thought I was wrong, but then I was partially right. But it still blew my mind. I can't wait for the conclusion to this story.
*I received an early copy of this book, and these are my actual thoughts that I am leaving voluntarily*