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Should never have waited to start this series. Absolutely incredible!
Should never have waited to start this series. Absolutely incredible!
“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.”
“You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
Despite this book taking me a long time to read, I really enjoyed it. I love Tahir’s writing and her characters.
Completed for the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge; prompt #24—a book by a Muslim American author
“You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
Despite this book taking me a long time to read, I really enjoyed it. I love Tahir’s writing and her characters.
Completed for the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge; prompt #24—a book by a Muslim American author
I loved this book! I really had a hard time putting it down when it was bedtime. Laia was the perfect heroine -- tough enough to survive and human enough to care about others. Elias had a more difficult time, he had so much more to lose. The author has created a world vaguely reminiscent of the Middle East, but yet different enough to be in the realm of fantasy. Extremely well-done. Can't want to read more.
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Dnf @ 66%
A world that works like a Roman Empire is filled with nothing but danger for all. Two individuals from opposite worlds, but share a common view for their own future, just might have the courage to break the bonds that chain them.
Laia is a Scholar slave, the lowest of the low in the ranks of the Martial Empire is fighting to find her brother and break him out of prison. Elias is a Mask, a warrior who has known nothing other than fighting and training as an empire soldier since age six. Two compl ...more
Laia is a Scholar slave, the lowest of the low in the ranks of the Martial Empire is fighting to find her brother and break him out of prison. Elias is a Mask, a warrior who has known nothing other than fighting and training as an empire soldier since age six. Two compl ...more
Summary: In the Martial Empire, there are two primary races of people, Scholars, and Martials; the Martials are the rule of the land and enslave and hurt the Scholars. This story is about two different people, Laia and Elias; they are on different sides but are similar in wants.
Laia is a Scholar, who after seeing her family die and her brother go to jail, has to find a way to help her brother. So she makes a deal with the resistance (a rebel group fighting against the martial guard), she will g ...more
Laia is a Scholar, who after seeing her family die and her brother go to jail, has to find a way to help her brother. So she makes a deal with the resistance (a rebel group fighting against the martial guard), she will g ...more
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This is why I'm worried about re-reading some of my old favourite books. Since I've read alot of YA fantasy after reading this back in 2015, there was nothing brand new about the plot and characters or even the world of this book. I still enjoyed it and got through it pretty quickly, but the magic from the first time read was gone. I'm still excited to see where the rest of the series is headed.
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This book was soo fast paced and wonderfully written. I loved Elias and Laia. Usu ...more
This is why I'm worried about re-reading some of my old favourite books. Since I've read alot of YA fantasy after reading this back in 2015, there was nothing brand new about the plot and characters or even the world of this book. I still enjoyed it and got through it pretty quickly, but the magic from the first time read was gone. I'm still excited to see where the rest of the series is headed.
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This book was soo fast paced and wonderfully written. I loved Elias and Laia. Usu ...more
Hey guys, SO i just finished An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, and woah.... it was a bit different material than im used to reading, but it had some of the same aspects of other familiar novels. In some ways it was more intense and in depth,like how she depicted torture(whipping with various objects, slashing and carving with blades) with the slaves and even the students at that hell infested academy. But other than that, I quite enjoyed the story, far more than I originally thought. I liked
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4.75 stars
This book was a roller coaster. It was off to a relatively slow start for me and there were times when I paused reading this book because I wasn’t able to get a 100% involved in the story but that quickly began to change the longer I flipped the pages. It wasn’t just a simple story of two people on opposing sides falling in love and finding a common cause to believe in. That’s something that hardly even happened. It was so complex with characters to love, with so many foes in every dir ...more
This book was a roller coaster. It was off to a relatively slow start for me and there were times when I paused reading this book because I wasn’t able to get a 100% involved in the story but that quickly began to change the longer I flipped the pages. It wasn’t just a simple story of two people on opposing sides falling in love and finding a common cause to believe in. That’s something that hardly even happened. It was so complex with characters to love, with so many foes in every dir ...more
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