An Ember in the Ashes is Sabaa Tahir’s debut, the first in the Ember Quartet. It tells the story of a girl, Laia, a Scholar living under the violent, oppressive rule of the Martial Empire. After her brother is arrested for treason and her grandparents are killed, she finds the shadowy Scholar Resistance, a group …
Tag: dystopia
Book Review | Dry (ARC)
I got an advance reader's copy (ARC) of Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. As this means the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, I won't quote directly and will keep my comments general. Alyssa, a teenager living in the Los Angeles area, turns on a faucet one …