#torch against the night

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Title: An Ember in the Ashes

Author: Sabaa Tahir

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2015

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, dystopia, adventure

Blurb: Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. 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. It is in this brutal world that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished back streets. They do not challenge the Empire; they’ve seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision: 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. There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier...and secretly its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realise that their destinies are intertwined...and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

[dustydaydreamer]

"if your sins were blood, child, you would drown in a river of your own making"

-Torch Against the Night, book 2 of An Ember in the Ashes series, Sabaa Tahir

[demiaseranmage]

This makes me think of the end of “A Torch Against the Night” by Sabaa Tahir, the second of the “An Ember in the Ashes” series, something I think that you would enjoy.

I found this in my notes and I was speechless. I completely forgot I wrote it but it does make sense.

[brothersnackariahsbitch]

The Ember in the Ashes series absolutely deserves as much attention as all the most popular fantasy books. Those books are so beautifully written and carry such important messages. I’ve never read a book that’s felt so fanciful but still felt so relevant to this world.

[for-hiraeth]

reading a tone of fantasy books results in one thing: FUCKING STAY AWAY FROM READHEADS. (Yes. Kvothe is involved. The only people that kvothe didn't fuck was me and Denna. Yes.)

[elvinapandra]

When you only read fantasy books but your book friends start to talk about non - fantasy novels

[clockworkbee]

When Elias Veturius changed his grandfather's mantra to one of his own for Laia, and when Kell Maresh used the antari commands to teach them to Lila but also make love to her, and when Julian Blackthorn used the very parabatai vows' that forbid love to defy them and express his love physically to Emma and when Cardan Greenbriar kind of begged Jude to lie to him when he always dreamed of that coming from her? That's EVERYTHING to me 🤌🏼

[totchipanda]

Emberlings, where you at! Have you read or are reading Heir? We must discuss!

[reyreadersblog]

This is like the most perfect explanation of grief that i've ever seen.

[pdulcis]

"ENAMOR" — COMMISSION WORK

Dropping here this commission piece I did in the past month for the wonderful @/elaiasconstellations (in IG) featuring Elias and Laia from An Ember in the Ashes Series by Sabaa Tahir 🖤🖤🖤

[autumnbabylon]

[from-books-with-love]

Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body's instincts take over.

Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night.

[safkart]

An ember in the ashes trio ♥️

It’s not my fave drawing ever 😂 it’ll do 🌝✨

[shinia]

OMGGG NEW BOOK IN THE SAME UNIVERSE AS AEITA ??!??! SOMEBODY SEDATE ME ???

[for-hiraeth]

[maybleq]

I am screaming

An Ember in the Ashes

A Torch Against the Night