Most stories’ plotlines are predictable enough for me to visualize what’s going to happen, but I did not predict what A Torch Against the Night had in store.
The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene-Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.īut dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. Laia is determined to break into Kauf-the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison-to save her brother, who knows the secrets of the Empire’s secret weaponry and is the key to the Scholars’ survival. Now, in the second book, A Torch Against the Night, Elias and Laia are running for their lives.Īfter the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Set in this brutal, high-fantasy world, Sabaa Tahir’s An Ember in the Ashes told the story of Laia, a slave fighting for her family, and Elias, a young soldier fighting for his freedom. 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. Books are burned, and the secrets to the Empire’s weaponry guarded. With their superior weaponry, the Martials enslaved the Scholars, subjecting them to lifelong pain and misery. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death.
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