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An Ember in the Ashes
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
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Krissy
Aug 28, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: buddy-read, cover-color-yellow-gold, audiobook, pgs-400-499
Really good! I look forward to book 2.
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Angie Taylor
Mar 06, 2015 rated it it was amazing
2018 Just finished this again with my husband in prep for book three in May. It was so fun to read it to the hubs again. He kept saying at especially good parts, "I don't remember any of this. Read on!" Loved it. Now on to Torch. Yay!!

Yes. I really did read this one more time. Five times. I really should stop. But it's just so good. (Oct. 2015)

Listening to this story was such a fabulous way to experience the detail perfect story for a third time. I'm totally in love with this story. Three time i ...more
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Heather - hturningpages
May 22, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: loved-it, awesome-audiobooks, amazing-series, bookclub
A little predictable, but Tahir weaves together characters in a complex and interesting world that made me not want to put it down! I particularly liked that Laia, while a main character, struggled with fear and strong self preservation instincts. In so many of these YA books the characters are so immediately selfless! I think Laia's paralyzingly fear was really relatable and her development as she becomes empowered is much more realistic not to mention exciting ;) ...more
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Ruth
Mar 24, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: youn-adult
Great story and a well written one. Characters are multifaceted and interesting. Reminiscent of the "Divergent" and "Hunger Games" books. ...more
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Amanda
Jan 27, 2017 rated it really liked it
Shelves: advance-reader-copies, advanced-reader-netgalley, young-adult, dystopian, 4-stars
I fell into this book after wandering around following after this author for a good long time, and I was delightfully surprised at a good number of the topics it covered. I like that our main characters were one from a deep marginalized minority, and another from inside the terrorizing group as someone who does not believe in it at all.

I'm very curious to see just where this series will go and the kind of revelations that are going to come out it. ...more
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Angie
Sep 14, 2016 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: great-reading-challenge, ya-books, audio-books, yadystopia, toughgirl, 2016-books
Good. Better than I thought it would be.
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