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Named one of the best books of the year by: TIMEEntertainment Weekly&#160; BuzzfeedAmazonPopSugarBustlePaste MagazinePopCrushPraise for&#160;A Torch Against the Night:&ldquo;The stakes here are high and the plot runs like a well-oiled machine, ratcheting up the tension with every chapter.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR.org&ldquo;An adrenaline rush till the very last page.&rdquo; &mdash;Buzzfeed &#160; &ldquo;The sequel to Tahir&rsquo;s bestselling smash An Ember in the Ashes finally comes out in August, and let me tell you, it does not disappoint.&rdquo; &mdash;Book Riot &#160; &ldquo;A Torch Against the Night is an unabashed page-turner that scarcely ever pauses for breath.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Christian Science Monitor &#160; &ldquo;Fast-paced, exciting and full of adrenaline, A Torch Against The Night is everything fans of Tahir&rsquo;s debut could possibly anticipate in a sequel.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Bucks County Courier Times&ldquo;Thrilling&hellip;Tahir meticulously plots these novels, ramping up the suspense and including plenty of surprises.&rdquo; &mdash;The Buffalo News&ldquo;Delivers in every way...The stakes have never been higher, and the tension is acutely felt as Elias and Laia run for their lives.&rdquo; &mdash;USA Today&rsquo;s Happy Ever After blog &#160; &ldquo;At last, it&rsquo;s here...It&rsquo;s as heartbreaking as it is action-packed, delivering a worthy second installment in Tahir&rsquo;s bestselling series.&rdquo; &mdash;Paste&ldquo;Tahir proves to be a master of suspense and a canny practitioner of the cliffhanger, riveting readers&rsquo; attention throughout.&hellip;[An] action-packed, breathlessly paced story.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist, starred review"This sequel has a darker tone and even higher stakes than its predecessor, setting the stage for a thrilling conclusion." &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review"Excellent." &mdash;Kirkus Reviews"The rare sequel that improves on the original...unputdownable." &mdash;Common Sense Media (Five Stars)Praise for An Ember in the Ashes:&ldquo;This novel is a harrowing, haunting reminder of what it means to be human &mdash; and how hope might be kindled in the midst of oppression and fear.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Washington Post&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;could launch Sabaa Tahir into JK Rowling territory&hellip;It has the addictive quality of&#160;The&#160;Hunger Games&#160;combined with the fantasy of&#160;Harry Potter&#160;and the brutality of&#160;Game of Thrones.&rdquo;&mdash;Public Radio International"An Ember in the Ashes&#160;glows, burns, and smolders&mdash;as beautiful and radiant as it is searing."&mdash;Huffington Post&#160;&ldquo;[An Ember in the Ashes] thrusts its readers into a world marred by violence and oppression, yet does so with simple prose that can offer moments of loveliness in its clarity. This complexity makes&#160;Ember&#160;a worthy novel&mdash;and&#160;one as brave as its characters.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The New York Times Book Review&#160;&ldquo;Sabaa Tahir spins a captivating, heart-pounding fantasy.&rdquo; &mdash;Us Weekly&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;mixes&#160;The Hunger Games&#160;with&#160;Game of Thrones...and adds a dash of&#160;Romeo and Juliet.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;The Hollywood Reporter&ldquo;Blew me away...This book is dark, complex, vivid, and romantic&mdash;expect to be completely transported.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;MTV.com&ldquo;Fast-paced, well-structured and&#160;full of twists and turns,&#160;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is an evocative debut that has left me invested in knowing what happens next.&rdquo; &mdash;NPR&#160;&ldquo;Once you get caught up in the story,&#160;it&rsquo;s addictive, and there&rsquo;s no way you can put it down&#160;before you figure out what happens to the characters you have fallen for over the course of the 400 some-odd pages. So I didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo; &mdash;Bustle&#160;&#160;&ldquo;This epic fantasy set in the Martial Empire has it all: danger and violence, secrets and lies, strong characters and forbidden romance and a touch of the supernatural.&rdquo; &mdash;The Atlanta Journal-Constitution&#160;&ldquo;A setting inspired by ancient Rome; a fierce battle for freedom in the face of tyranny; and&#160;a villain who makes Cersei Lannister and Dolores Umbridge look like a pair of pathetic amateurs...An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is at the&#160;top of our must-read list&#160;for 2015.&rdquo; &mdash;MTV.com&ldquo;Be prepared to be blown away&#160;by this fantasy-thriller-adventure.&rdquo; &mdash;Girls&rsquo; Life&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is a book that's&#160;too good to put down.&rdquo; &mdash;RedEye&#160;&ldquo;Perfect for fans of Maggie Stiefvater's&#160;The Scorpio Races&#160;or Sarah Maas's Throne of Glass series&hellip;The book is already set to be a film, which will be EPIC!&rdquo; &mdash;TeenVogue.com*&#160;&ldquo;Tahir&rsquo;s&#160;deft, polished debut&#160;alternates between two very different perspectives on the same brutal world, deepening both in the contrast. In&#160;a tale brimming with political intrigue and haunted by supernatural forces, the true tension comes from watching Elias and Laia struggle to decide where their loyalties lie.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review&#160;&ldquo;Tahir&rsquo;s world-building is wonderfully detailed and the setting is an unusual one for fantasy novels. All of her characters, even minor ones, are fully realized....For fans of&#160;Game of Thrones&#160;and of Melina Marchetta&rsquo;s&#160;Finnikin of the Rock.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal&#160;&ldquo;An original, well-constructed fantasy world...truly engaging.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews&#160;&#160;&ldquo;An&#160;epic fantasy debut&#160;about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It&rsquo;s a story that&rsquo;s literally burning to be told.&rdquo; &mdash;Hypable.com&ldquo;First-time novelist Tahir has written an ambitious sword-and-sand adventure story that is notable for its suspense and scope.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist&#160;&#160;&ldquo;Here's&#160;one of the year's most anticipated&#160;young-adult debuts.&rdquo; &mdash;io9.com&ldquo;I was so engrossed with this book that I missed a connecting flight.&#160;If that doesn&rsquo;t convince you to read&#160;An Ember in the Ashes, I don&rsquo;t know what will.&#160;An explosive, heartbreaking, epic debut&#160;that will keep you glued to the pages. I hope the world&rsquo;s ready for Sabaa Tahir.&rdquo; &mdash;Marie Lu,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Legend&#160;&ldquo;With&#160;An Ember in the Ashes, Sabaa Tahir shows us light in the darkness, hope in a world of despair, and the human spirit reaching for greatness in difficult times.&rdquo; &mdash;#1&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author Brandon Sanderson&#160;&ldquo;An Ember in the Ashes&#160;is&#160;a spectacular page turner&#160;that asks readers to consider how far they&rsquo;d go to save the ones they love.&#160;Sabaa Tahir is the next superstar in young adult fiction&#160;and her debut is as cinematic as&#160;Gladiator&#160;and as high-stakes as&#160;Game of Thrones.&rdquo;&mdash;Holly Goldberg Sloan,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Counting by 7s&#160;&ldquo;A heart-pounding story of love and loss, with the most original world-building I&rsquo;ve read all year. Deeply felt and deeply moving,&#160;I could not put it down.&rdquo; &mdash;Margaret Stohl,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling co-author of&#160;Beautiful Creatures&#160;&ldquo;This electric debut is a&#160;pulse-pounding action-packed&#160;Romeo and Juliet&#160;story in a richly imagined world with a great twist and heroic characters you&rsquo;ll root for and won&rsquo;t stop thinking about.&rdquo; &mdash;Melissa de la Cruz,&#160;New York Times&#160;bestselling author of&#160;Frozen&#160;and&#160;The Ring and the Crown

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