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Title: An Ember in the Ashes Author: Sabaa Tahir
Published On: February 9, 2016
Started Reading On: June 17, 2018 Finished On: July 4, 2018
Average Star Rating: 4.32 out of 5 stars My Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
My Thoughts (Spoilers)
I had so much fun rereading this book in preparation for reading the third book and I am so excited to talk about this book.
The story was so good. I love seeing the characters develop and do what they have to do to survive. The characters are all very grey, and there really isn't really anyone who is in the light, because the world really is survival of the fittest.
The characters were honestly my favourite part of the book. Elias was just trying to survive and escape to live his own life, in a world in which he can't really. And with everything going on around him, with all the people dying, and him being so sympathetic and really being someone to be around, you can really see how far he would go to get out.
Laia was someone who was willingly to do anything for her family. She goes with the Resistance and does whatever the asshole of a leader was asking her to do, just to get him to help her with saving her brother. She goes through so much emotional abuse and rape threats, and she comes out in the end stronger than how she was going in.
I liked seeing the mythology going on in this book. The magic and other things along those lines, and the monsters going on the efits and jinn and other beings. I am just in love with having magic and mythology in books.
I love the story, and it being rooted in a very Roman style world and I am in love with seeing so much. I can't wait to reread the second one and see more outside the Empire and read the third one and see even more.
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
“There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.”