The book trailer for Sabaa Tahir's debut YA novel An Ember in the Ashes was recently revealed on Entertainment Weekly! I've been hearing a lot of good hype for this high fantasy novel, so I definitely have An Ember in the Ashes on my must-read list. While the book is a standalone for now, I can already see the potential for it to become a series, especially if Laia must save her brother from the brutal, ruthless regime of the Martial Empire...

Enjoy the book trailer for An Ember in the Ashes and don't forget to add the book to your TBR list if you haven't already done so yet!

Release Date: April 28, 2015
Publisher: Razorbill
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Summary (from Goodreads):

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

ELIAS is the academy’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.

When Laia and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself.