Welcome to the next installment of our read-along. I hope you're reading (or re-reading in some cases) along with us! Read the book or listen to the audiobook and then listen to this spoiler filled podcast episode as Tamara, Casey, and Nicola share their thoughts on An Ember in the Ashes.
Let us know if you read the book or listened to the audiobook and share with us what you thought of it.
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Let us know if you read the book or listened to the audiobook and share with us what you thought of it.
Participate in 3 easy steps.
- Get the details of the read-along here.
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- Don't use Facebook? Instead, call in and share your thoughts in a Speakpipe Voicemail! We will play and respond to your voicemail on an upcoming episode!
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Publisher: Razorbill | Listening Library
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Format(s): MP3 Download & Ebook
Pages: 446
Audio Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
Narrators: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: 4 bookmarks - Tamara | 5 bookmarks - Casey | 3 bookmarks - Nicola
Synopsis: Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.
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, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. 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 realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Format(s): MP3 Download & Ebook
Pages: 446
Audio Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
Narrators: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: 4 bookmarks - Tamara | 5 bookmarks - Casey | 3 bookmarks - Nicola
Synopsis: Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.
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, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. 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 realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.
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