I think the characters were probably my biggest issue with this book. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined – and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself. But Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. There, she meets Elias, the academy’s finest soldier.

Should she fail it’s more than her brother’s freedom at risk. When Laia’s grandparents are brutally murdered and her brother arrested for treason by the empire, the only people she has left to turn to are the rebels.īut in exchange for their help in saving her brother, they demand that Laia spy on the ruthless Commandant of Blackcliff, the Empire’s greatest military academy. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Sadly however, I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I was expecting to, I thought the world building was lacking, and the characters were flat and difficult to connect with. An Ember In The Ashes was my #RockMyTBR challenge book for August, and I have to admit I was pretty excited due to all the hype I had seen about it. Book: An Ember In The Ashes (An Ember In The Ashes #1)īECHDEL TEST: PASS-Laia and Izzi have a discussion about the Commandant.Īn Ember In The Ashes is one of those books that has been on my TBR FOREVER (okay well like two years, but still) and it’s also one of those that you constantly hear about on Book Twitter, but for whatever reason it took me forever to get around to it.

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