“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.”
Genre: Fantasy
Actual Rating: 4 stars
Content Warning: Violence, death, dystopian slavery and mass killing, and physical abuse are prominent topics.
“A Torch Against the Night” continues right where we left off in the first book and follows Laia and Elias as they escape Serra and try to break Laia’s brother out of the Empire’s most secure prison. But it also follows Helene, now the new Blood Shrike and Elias’s former best friend and companion, as she is ordered to finish what the Empire had started: the execution of Elias. Told from various points of view, this second installment of the An Ember in the Ashes series is somehow just as good as the first one, which I honestly didn’t feel was possible.
I was convinced I wouldn’t be finishing this series, Red-Queen-series style. But no, I absolutely can’t leave it off like this. I feel the need to keep reading. The twists and turns of this book are never-ending. It is so fast paced and somehow managed to be both character- and plot-driven. In this book, the characters delved more into their emotions and their dualities. I am so excited to see where they’ll go from here.
I would recommend this series to readers who enjoy fantasy and dystopian fiction, and those that won’t squirm away from violence and war being depicted in books.
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“Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note.”
andrea's galley 