An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Published by Razorbill on April 28, 2015
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
Pages: 464
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Synopsis:Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.
Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.
It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.
But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.
There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.
FBB:
My big brother reaches home in the dark hours before dawn, when even ghosts take their rest. He smells of steel and coal and forge. He smells of the enemy.
Friday 56:
“I was looking for you,” I say. “For the Resistance. I need your help. My brother was taken in a raid yesterday-”
“We can’t help,” Keenan says. “We’re stretched thin as it is.”
“But-”
“We. Can’t. Help.” He speaks slowly, as if I’m a child. Maybe before the raid, the chill in his eyes would have silence me. But not now. Not when Darin needs me.
I want to read this one! I added it to my GR list!
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I hope you are enjoying the book.
Thanks for sharing even though I don’t read this genre. Beautiful cover.
Have a good week.
Elizabeth
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It was a pretty crazy read! And the cover is gorgeous, isn’t it?
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