- Authoritarianism, Brothers and sisters, Military cadets, Insurgency
The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power. As Helene searches for a way to hold back the approaching darkness, her sister's life and the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Sabaa Tahir
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 458
- Publisher
- Razorbill
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780448494500
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Sabaa Tahir is a Pakistani-American young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes and its sequels. Two of her novels, An Ember in the Ashes and A Torch Against the Night, were listed among Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time in 2020.
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