#sabaa tahir
I’ve been working on my bookshelves, getting them reorganized. 2 of them are done-ish, just 3 more to go
So last night I tumblr’d wrong. Someone had asked me about recommendations for teen romances. This is my answer..
I haven’t read too many young adult books lately. Usually if I am looking for a romance, I pick adult romance. When I pick a ya up, I am looking for an adventure, supernatural, which usually has romance but is not the whole of the book. I did look back on past ya books that I loved that had romance and this is what I came up with:
° Starcrossed trilogy by Josephine Angelini.
3.5 books in series.
° Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
° The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot
6 + sequeal
° The Arcana Chronicles by Kresley Cole
4.5 and still going
° Precious Stone trilogy by Kerstin Gier
° The Tiger Saga by Colleen Houck
4 books
° Splintered by A.G. Howard
3.5 books
° Shadow Falls by CC Hunter
5 + sequeals
° Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
° The Remnant Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson
° An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
2 + on going
° Song Of The Lioness by Tamora Pierce
4 + sequeal with daughter
If anyone else has any suggestions please share
Books read in 2018 I A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
Strange how monsters can reach from beyond the grave, as potent in death as they were in life.
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So a few weeks ago someone asked me if I would consider doing another Laia and Elias from the Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir since the last book was coming out soon. At first I didn’t thought about it but around this week the idea popped into my head. So in my spare times I started doing this illustration and I’m really happy that I could finish it before the book release. So to create more hype, here you have this couple illustration. Hope you like it as much as me! I’m still learning how to do this kind of lighting
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Hi it’s me, checking in to see if anyone here has read “An Ember in the Ashes” series? I’m halfway through book two and deceased
Rewritten - Helene x Avitas
I needed to write this to preserve my sanity and otp - the world needs more Helvitas shippers
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“Harper, no-” I whisper. “No- please- ”
I promise I will keep you safe. The vow I made Zacharias. The vow that had been for Harper too.
I will not lose him.
But the blood flows too quickly. I cannot stop it, I cannot save him. It is impossible.
The Commandant, traitorous bitch that she is, watches me, basking in my suffering. But her training manages to take root in my mind yet. And impossible is one word that has never existed in the world of Keris Veturia.
The pain in my side pierces through me anew as a second dagger digs into my hip. Still, my power should be enough to sustain both me and Harper.
I have already been broken, if he is lost to me, I will be nothing at all.
Avitas’s song floats quickly to my lips. I venture into his soul, more deeply than before, sharing his pain, feeling his love in its purest form.
Waves of exhaustion pour over me, and still I sing. I sing of his past, I sing of his hopes for the future, our future. I sing until my voice is cracked and broken and I can sing no more. Don’t you dare die on me now.
Stupid bleeding orders, Shrike.
The light continues to seep from his eyes in time with the unending flow of blood from his chest.
“Emifal Firdaant, Harper,” I lower my gaze to his. “May death claim me first. I will be damned if I let the love of my life get there before me. Emifal Firdaant.”
He reaches out his arm with striking swiftness. I look up to see one of the Commandant’s daggers clenched in the palm of his hand. His smile is weak, voice low as he whispers, “Helene, don’t lower your guard.”
The deadly white hue of his face has begun to color, scarlet blood pooling on his chest, but flowing no longer. And his reflexes and overprotectiveness are as perfectly irritating as ever.
“Skies, Avitas, shut up.” I press my lips to his and the world is right again.
“Poor little girl. If not for your worthless love, you may have lived yet.” Keris approaches us, dagger in hand, murder in her eyes. And something else, something shimmering right on the surface of all her walls. Disappointment?
It does not matter. For when I tell Keris of her mother, when Mirra of Serra brings steel to her throat and grants her the same end as my family, I am sure she will bite her words forevermore.
***
The formalities that come with the aftermath of the war are made bearable with Avitas by my side as Shrike. And though I am occupied with my duties on many nights, there are others when Harper and I spend much time together occupied by… other things.
***
“Happa!” Zacharias greets Avitas with an adorable grin and his first word.
“Zacharias, you know Auntie Empress, right?” I glance at Harper. “He calls me ba.”
“Whatever you say, Sheep sir.”
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“Hel, is that a bleeding smile?” Avitas and I dance through the streets of Nur, eye to eye, his warm hands placed firmly on my hips.
“Well, you dance… not unpleasantly.”
“I remember you saying something similar about my smell.” His green eyes shine in the moonlight, lips quirking up in a smile.
“Harper, I would… I am with child.” Skies, that was excruciating. “I just wanted to bleeding tell you before my stomach blew up to the size of a Skies forsaken cannon ball.”
“Hel…”
“Raising Zacharias is a grand task of itself, a child will only complicate things. Our duty to the Empire must come first.”
The amount of passion he puts into kissing me upon my saying the words is dizzying.
“Skies, Hel, this is probably the first time in my life that I’ve received a pleasant surprise. Don’t be moronic.” And then, for the first time since I met him, he truly laughs, hearty and beautiful and clear, and so very full of life.
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*Sigh* Harper is so AMAZING!!!!
“Skies save me from the men in my life and all the things they think they know.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates
Elias and Laia from An Ember in the Ashes by Sabba Tahir.
A commission.
I have finally finished “A Sky Beyond The Storm!!”
I am so happy to see how the story ended with the characters
I will post a full review of the whole series soon!
I am finally starting “A Sky Beyond The Storm” by Sabaa Tahir!
It is the final book in the “An Ember In The Ashes” quartet.
I can’t wait to see how Laia, Elias, and Helene/Blood Shrike’s stories play out!
I am also going to be starting on “House Of Sky and Breath” by Sarah J. Maas!!
I can’t wait to see what Hunt and Bryce are forced into!
Okay so i think this month is really stressful for all bookworms what with Chain of Gold and Crescent City being released on THE SAME DAY and Sabaa Tahir FINALLY revealing the cover, title, and release date of An Ember in The Ashes 4 “A Sky Beyond The Storm” i mean seriously guys what are you doing to us!!!
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why is it always “i love you” and never “you are my temple, you are my priest, you are my prayer, you are my release”?
When the point of view said Soul Catcher, instead of Elias:
“You are my temple-”
Me:
When I accidentally leave my book at some one’s house:
Going about your day and then remembering the ending of REAPER:
just finished a sky beyond the storm and im gonna cry my eyes out
THIS SHIT IS SO HEARTBREAKING I HATE MY LIFE
