An Ember in the Ashes by: Sabaah Tahir

Title: Ember in the Ashes (Ember in the Ashes #1)

Author: Sabaa Tahir

Published: April 28, 2015 

Rating: 5 stars

Wow that cover is beautiful...

Anyway, this story had a dual POV.

Laia, who is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire.

And Elias who is the Martial's finest soldier in the academy.

When Laia's brother is arrested for treason because he was working against the Emperor, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy (which Elias is in!!!) in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars (the resistance) who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution. Or do they?

While that is happening, Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest, to determine who the next Martial emperor will be, since the Emperor will be stepping down this year...

In around 50% of the book, Laia and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, because Laia needs help from Marcus trying to rape her in the hallway. At that moment, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself.

Laia is risking her life to save her brother, and Elias is risking his life to reach freedom, they both have a common enemy, destination, and mission.

Laia the "Ember in the Ashes"
Elias the "legendary soldier"
Both will work together to put piece into their kingdom... 




Characters:

Laia: went from being a coward, to the leader and determined girl she was born to be. 
Elias: was always as charming as ever, and went from a love triangle to having one love, and kept his strong appearance in tact :)

The Commandant: hate her gutts, plain and simple.

Marcus: he can go jump off a cliff, and I'll laugh because he was such a terrible person.

Helene: I hated her for being so close to Elias, I want Elias and Laia to end up together. So she's on my hate list, no matter what good things she has done.

Keenan: I hated him for being so close to Laia, same description above...

Apart from the characters, while reading this book I was HOOKED!!! I read this in 3 hours. 3 HOURS!! And I'm craving for the second book but it comes out NEXT YEAR!!!! AHHHH!!!




The action, mystery, magic, adventure, character development was just AWESOME!!! And the romance didn't get in the way of the story. Which I LOVE!!!

This book= to-buy-when-releases!!! ;)

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