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An Ember in the Ashes

Sabaa Tahir

4.22 AVERAGE

adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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adventurous sad tense
adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense
adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Loved this book. Lots of great twists and turns. Definitely recommend.
adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

I'm glad I picked this book up much later than I wanted to. Back then I wouldn't have enjoyed the direct communication and even the dark torture in the first installment. Now it's all well written yet dark literature to me this time.


Yes Elia won me over and boy was he a refreshing male lead to read about more than I have with other ya heroes.

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DID NOT FINISH: 51%

Too many casual references to rape, like it was a forgone conclusion rather than a traumatic event. Quite insensitive, especially in a young adult book marketed to teens.