An Ember in the Ashes

Name: An Ember in the Ashes
ISBN: 9781595148032

Sabaa Tahir

Book 1 of An Ember in the Ashes

464 pages · about 8 hours
First published 2015
14 editions

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1 About this book

Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

Good for readers who want: fantasy, a love story, and a long read.

Fantasy
Courage
Romance
Love
Brothers and sisters
Insurgency
Authoritarianism
Undercover operations

2 About Sabaa Tahir

Born 1983

Sabaa Tahir is an American young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes, its sequels, and the novel All My Rage. Two of her novels, An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, were listed among Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time in 2020.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

3 More by Sabaa Tahir

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