Sabaa Tahir: An Ember in the Ashes

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Sabaa Tahir: An Ember in the Ashes

Dear Author,

I was going to be harsh in this review. I was going to tell you how sloppily you built your world, where a people has been enslaved for 500 years straight and still hasn't been absorbed into normal society or died out from too many raids. I was going to tell you the Augurs are too powerful to allow for a story.

But the story pulled me in. Laia's fear and Elias' anguish, the Commandant's brutal hate and the Augurs' inscrutable omniscience kept me awake. The stage, however crude and cobbled-together, was enough for your supreme actors to play on.

I'm looking forward to reading the second book, A Torch aginst the Night.

Yours sincerely
Christina Widmann de Fran