![]() ![]() This sets a high bar for the series to come. El-Arifi keeps the pages flying even while building an intricate secondary world, allowing readers to learn its rules through action rather than exposition. Now Sylah works to pick up the pieces of the rebellion with help from her friend Hassa, a clever and resourceful Ghosting, and Anoor, the Duster with whom she was switched at birth. ![]() She and 12 other Ember children were stolen as babies by a Duster-led resistance called the Sandstorm, who hoped to raise them “to destroy the empire from within.” A brutal massacre of Sandstorm’s ranks left Sylah the sole survivor, and she’s lost all hope of a revolution-until someone she’d thought long dead walks back into her life. ![]() But Sylah has a secret: she was born an Ember. Scrappy heroine Sylah lives among the Dusters, working in their fighting rings while struggling with addiction to deadly joba seeds. There are three classes: the Embers, the red-blooded elite the Dusters, a blue blooded second class and the Ghostings, clear-blooded slaves with virtually no rights. The Wardens’ Empire maintains a violent social hierarchy based on the color of one’s blood. El-Arifi debuts and launches the Ending Fire series with a fast-paced epic fantasy inspired by Ghanian and Arabian folklore. ![]()
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