{"id":1313,"date":"2016-10-26T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/?p=1313"},"modified":"2016-10-26T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T18:32:55","slug":"ms-haigh-reads-an-ember-in-the-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/2016\/10\/26\/ms-haigh-reads-an-ember-in-the-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Haigh Reads – An Ember in the Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I will start this post off with the fact that I am not generally a fantasy fan. I have\u00a0always had difficulty picturing imaginary\u00a0worlds, but\u00a0in an effort to expand my horizons I read An Ember in the Ashes<\/span> by Sabaa Tahir and absolutely loved it.<\/p>\n

Though it is fantasy, the world is accessible and filled\u00a0with\u00a0the perfect amounts of gore, mystery and romance. Fans of the Hunger Games<\/span>, will definitely enjoy this book.<\/p>\n

This is the first book\u00a0in a four part series and Tahir creates a gore filled world which is allegedly based on Ancient Rome. In this world, the Emperor rules with an iron fist and kills anyone who goes against\u00a0his will, but a revolution is rising amongst the lower classes.<\/p>\n

Told in alternating points of view, the story follows a young woman named Laia who agrees to spy for the rebel cause after her brother is arrested. Her seemingly impossible mission is to spy on the head of the world’s elite military academy where hand-picked children are trained to become deadly assassins.<\/p>\n

There she meets Elias, the school’s best soldier who is having second thoughts about his life of violence and murder. As the story develops their destinies become intertwined as they each\u00a0struggle with how to fight against the tyrannical system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I will start this post off with the fact that I am not generally a fantasy fan. I have\u00a0always had difficulty picturing imaginary\u00a0worlds, but\u00a0in an effort to expand my horizons I read An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[16,18,22,21,19,20,24,17,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/alpha-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}