Ashes to Ashes (Burn for Burn, #3) Ashes to Ashes question


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Is anyone else depressed and heartbroken by the way this book ended???? Spill any feelings you may have!!
Maryam Maryam Jul 05, 2015 08:19PM
Okay I absolutely loved these series and I couldn't wait to see how everything ends!! I so thought I had my finger on what might happen, but it was completely opposite!!!!:'( I was just majorly shocked by the crappy ending the authors gave Kat and Reeve! Please let me know whAt you think!!! Need to VENT! I am OUTRAGED AND UPSET!!



I didn't like the first Epilogue so I wrote a second:
Ashes to Ashes Second Epilogue

After a couple of mounts of dating things started to go downhill with Alex. It wasn't anything drastic just a slow process. My feelings for Alex had never been as strong as they had been for Reeve. The foundation for our relationship had been friendship and I think for a time I really did love him. But eventually I had to admit that my feelings for him just weren't strong enough. They just faded and since we were both really busy with our jobs I felt like we were two strangers living our separate lives. As much as Alex loved me once I could see that he felt the same way in the end. He didn't look at me the same way he used to. Maybe it was because he realized that I would never love him the way he loved me, that I will never love him the way I love Reeve. Yes, love Reeve and not loved Reeve. After Kat told me he got his college degree in an online program while he was working for his fathers company and got a job here in Boston I couldn't stop thinking about him.
Then Alex was offered a great job in Nashville. The moment he told me I knew it was over between us. He would go without me. And he did. We are still fiends and text or call each other from time to time. He is now married to a singer and has a daughter called Sophia. I think he is pretty happy with his life and I am really glad he found someone who loves him the way he deserves.
As for me, I hadn't seen Reeve in Boston yet even though he had been living there for some months when I finally saw him again a Kat's wedding.
She had fallen head over heels in love with a guy who was staying in Jar Island for the summer. Andrew seems like a good guy. I don't know how long their rushed marriage will last but since Andrew chose to stay on that island for her I think they will be fine.
Reeve didn't talk to me at the wedding at all but I could see and felt him watching me all the time.
When the bride an groom finally left for their honeymoon – Europe – I saw him leaving as well. In a snap decision I followed him and reached him just as he had climbed into his car. I opened the passenger door and climbed in as well. He looked quite astonished and started to say something but I cut him off. „Just drive.“ „No, what are you doing?“ „Why didn't you visit me in Boston. Back when I was in college and these past few months.“ „You almost got killed because of me. Because of something I did. I thought it was best for you if I stayed away. Alex was the better choice for you.“ „We broke up.“ „I know.“ At that moment his mother opened the door and gave me such a hateful look that I felt suddenly quite cold. I couldn't blame her. She thought her son had tried to kill himself because of me. „Reeve could you drive me home.“ He looked at his mother than at me. „Sure.“ His mother beckoned me to get out of the car. But before I did so I got a card out of my purse and leaned towards his ear. He still smelled good and I felt the urge to turn my head and kiss him. „Come visit me in Boston.“, I whispered and put the card into his hand. I felt him slightly shiver when my whispered breath touched his ear. He didn't say anything just looked me in the eye but I think I saw him nod before I got out of the car.
It took him quite a while but finally he called and asked me to walk with him in the park. And there we talked really for the first time since seven years. When he brought me home that day he only gave me a chaste kiss goodbye one the cheek.
But the next time he gave me a real kiss and it felt like we had never stopped. Kissing that is. Personally we had both grown and needed that time apart to do so. We fist had to deal with everything that had happened on our own to be truly free for each other.
After that first kiss in a cold Boston night we never stopped kissing. Everyone on Reeves side of the family still hated me but they got around eventually when they saw how happy Reeve was and still is. When our fist child Emily was born his mother officially forgave me as well. We briefly considered telling her the truth but then we decided to let the past stay the past. Not that anyone would have believed us anyway if we had told them what really happened.
I sometimes still think of Mary. Wherever she is now I hope she is alright. I wish her life could have gone differently. Young people don't really think about how much they might hurt other people with their words and actions. It is their parents duty to teach them to treat other people with respect and stand up for those who cant do it themselves. Reeve and I will definitely teach this our children because psychical wounds can hurt just as bad as physical ones and you cant just take Aspirin to make the pain go away.

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daydreamer Uhh, thank you so much for this! It isn't enough to fix my broken heart from the real epilogue (only the authors can do that by rewriting it) but it's ...more
Jun 12, 2019 10:34AM · flag

The ending is okay. I think Kat's ending was good. It worked out well for her. But they messed up Reeve, I agree. I think he deserves better. I think it was best that he parted ways with Lillia, though. However, I can't think of a better ending for Reeve without messing up with the others.
Lillia and Alex ending up together was predictable, and it was okay. I just wished the authors continued the tension, that was in book one, between them. Just so their ending is convincing.

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Alyce Hunt The epilogue did ruin the entire series. Lillia had been playing with Alex's feelings and leading him along for years, and she finally decided "no, I' ...more
Oct 06, 2015 12:31PM · flag

YESS! Ugh. I hated that Lillia and Reeve went seperate ways, and Reeve stayed behind. I hated Alex and Lillia together. They had no chemistry and he was so puppy-dog pathetic around her.
I'm glad Kat got out and everything, but I would've enjoyed seeing her and Alex run in to each other if they visited home at the same time, and maybe all in love then.
But Lillia and Reeve were pretty much the reason I loved Fire with Fire so much. I loved seeing the other side of Reeve, the one that hates what he did so much that he wants to change, but doesn't know how.


@Jordan OMG IKR!!! I couldn't believe it, Kat started to get feelings for Alex in the last book with having butterflies and having flashbacks about their kiss, so I was confused that they didn't end up. And same, I LOVE LOVE LOVED fire with fire because of reeve! I hated the fact that they gave him a crappy ending! Like WHY!?!!!


Kat and Lindy and Lillia and Reeve, how it should have ended up but didn't and that made me feel like I wasted my time reading this series.


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