Some of our favorite BookTube + Bookstagram posts!
BookTube had lots to say about A Torch Against the Night! Add these videos to your queue once you’re caught up with reading or re-reading the book:
“When you are dealing with morally gray characters and antagonistic characters, it is impossible to not be captivated the entire time. And that’s how I feel reading these books. I mean, this was my third time reading TORCH, and yet I still felt that same sense of excitement that I felt my very first time reading it. I was captivated from the very first moment, completely enthralled in this tale of these really complicated characters. Because the more layers there are, the more stressed and furious I get. So that’s how I felt the entire time I read this book and I don’t regret it in the slightest.” —Kav from xreadingsolacex
“Since I have already read this book, I do kind of remember what happens down the line regarding a certain character’s fate, and I am not looking forward to reading about that.” —Sandy from sandyreadsalot
“I really like Laia especially as a main character, because I think that she’s just really interesting. I feel like this is something people have been saying for years about the Ember in the Ashes series, but I just really do like the fact that Laia is really like an everyday girl and she’s just really scared, she’s not a warrior, but she still doesn’t let that prevent her from being brave and doing what she has to do for her family.” —Mina from Mina Reads
“I definitely enjoyed my reread, and I feel very similarly to the first time I read it where I feel like Sabaa Tahir—this mainly pertains to the third book too—she doesn’t always allow for these magical saves at the very end of moments. Like, sometimes things go wrong for characters and people die, and there’s not something that saves them at the end at the very last second. And I kind of like that.” —Olivia from iLivieforbooks
Bookstagram also took part in all the Read-Along fun! Here are some of our favorite posts:
When we say this book looks stunning, we do mean STUNNING.
“There is never a chapter where something crazy doesn’t happen. Non-stop tension, excellent character development, and great work-building is what you’ll find here.”
Now, in A TORCH AGAINST THE NIGHT, Elias and Laia are running for their lives.After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.But dark forces, human and otherworldly, work against Laia and Elias. The pair must fight every step of the way to outsmart their enemies: the bloodthirsty Emperor Marcus, the merciless Commandant, the sadistic Warden of Kauf, and, most heartbreaking of all, Helene—Elias’s former friend and the Empire’s newest Blood Shrike.Bound to Marcus’s will, Helene faces a torturous mission of her own—one that might destroy her: find the traitor Elias Veturius and the Scholar slave who helped him escape…and kill them both.
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