I don't even care that there were love triangles. Everything about it was gripping, from the godawful but mesmerizing setting to those two bloody love triangles (love square?). You know those rare books that just make your heart pound? Those that take you so far out of the real world that you have to remind yourself afterwards that it's all fiction, or else you won't be sleeping? For me, this was one of those books. An Ember in the Ashes, however, made me angry. My favourites are made up of books that filled me with happy excitement or, alternatively, books that ripped my heart out and made me cry.

I think a lot of people will understand me when I say that the best kind of books are those that provoke strong emotions in you. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. “You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. “This life is not always what we think it will be,” Cain says. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined-and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier-and secretly, its most unwilling. 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. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.īut when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision.

The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. 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. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death.

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