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An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

21 reviews

kkm88's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Trafficking, Torture, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, War, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Grief, and Genocide

Minor: Racism, Vomit, Rape, Pregnancy, Abortion, and Child death

bookishchef's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual violence, Violence, Slavery, Classism, Grief, Blood, Cursing, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: War, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Genocide, Rape, and Trafficking

Minor: Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy

marissasa's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book made me love the dystopian genre again, and pulled off the angst and pain iconic to this genre incredibly well while still having believable characters on both the "good" and "bad" sides. I live for characters questioning their morals and their identities, and our main two Laia and Elias were constantly doing this throughout the story. I also loved that despite the harrowing situations they lived through and are still facing in the story's current timeline, they are still teenagers and actually act like it at appropriate times. They may be hardened by the realities of losing their families or being raised as ruthless soldiers, but they still show raw emotions and act based on their feelings, they still long for freedom and try to maintain friendships despite being in situations where self-preservation is more logical. There was also more brutality and violence than I expected in the book but it wasn't without purpose, as it helped define the world that they live in and the harsh reality of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Sabaa Tahir did so well at building tension and having real, meaningful stakes in both Laia's spy mission and in Elias' decisions during the Trials. The last act of the book was particularly great to read, I actually felt my heart pounding at some of the very tense life or death moments and felt satisfied with the ending as it was but engaged enough to be excited for the rest of the series to pick up where it left off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Slavery, Torture, Death of parent, Genocide, Vomit, Blood, Colonisation, Grief, Physical abuse, and Sexual assault

thereadingferret's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent and Blood

Minor: Stalking, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Rape, and Slavery

b3ck's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Death of parent, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Abortion and Vomit

crazyrandom_music's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Murder, Slavery, Vomit, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Racism and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death of parent

kalistathis's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

booksandtea997's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

   | I honestly had a really hard time rating this.

*It was a quick read. 
*The pace was decent-ish (I struggled a bit at first)
*The idea is interesting but it still is a 2016 YA book and it reads exactly like a 2016 YA book.

I can't even pinpoint why this isn't rated higher. Maybe because it really reminded me a lot of books I already read that are just a bit older than this one (same YA era) and my brain kept going like: "hey this scene is similar to the one in...", "this one reminds me of ..." etc. 
I don't know, I guess what I am trying to say is that 2016-2017 Tea probably would have loved this book- sadly, she isn't the one that read it.
Also, the plot twist, I'm not actually even sure if it was a plot twist because it was expected to happen and the entire story while interesting felt a bit flat because it lacked intrigue.
I just didn't love it and I am a bit bitter about that. Because it does sound good.

I am gonna continue on with the series just to see what happens I guess.. I mean, it wasn't bad.
I really hope that Sabaa Tahir would write another series after this one because I think she is a good writer, her ideas are really good... I just want something that's not YA (I don't hate it.. I just want something different)

It's late... My brain is mush... I don't even want to think of grammar and punctuation...zzZZZZZZ

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Slavery, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Vomit

olivedean's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Death, and Rape

Minor: Vomit

briggs4598's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Rape, and Medical trauma

Minor: Vomit, Sexism, Misogyny, Medical trauma, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Child death, Blood, and Gore