Books like “An Ember in the Ashes”

What to read after “An Ember in the Ashes” by Sabaa Tahir: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Red Queen
Victoria Aveyard · 2015
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
Mare lives in a world split by blood: silver elites with powers and powerless reds. When a dangerous ability of her own is exposed, the royal family hides her in their palace, where she becomes a pawn in two secret wars.
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The Winner's Curse
Marie Rutkoski · 2014
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Rebellion
- Forbidden Love
In a city that has conquered and enslaved a neighbouring people, the general's daughter Kestrel buys a defiant young slave named Arin on a whim. He is far more than he seems, and as rebellion stirs in the streets, Kestrel finds her loyalty to her family pulling against everything she feels for him.
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Throne of Glass
Sarah J. Maas · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Tournament” and “Love Triangle”
- Tournament
- Love Triangle
Celaena Sardothien, the kingdom's most notorious assassin, is dragged from a salt mine to compete in a contest for the king. Victory would buy her freedom, but the court is full of plots and her rivals will do anything. Between a prince and a guardsman, she searches for who she can trust.
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008
Similar plot moves: “Tournament” and “Love Triangle”
In Panem, each district must send two teenagers to fight to the death on television. When Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her sister's place, she turns the Games into something the Capitol cannot fully control.
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The Selection
Kiera Cass · 2012
Similar plot moves: “Tournament” and “Love Triangle”
In a future kingdom divided into castes, thirty-five girls are chosen to compete for the crown. America Singer enters only for the money, torn between a secret love back home and the young prince she is slowly getting to know.
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare · 2007
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Forbidden Love”
- Love Triangle
- Forbidden Love
Clary Fray sees a murder no one else can, committed by three tattooed teenagers with strange weapons. When her mother vanishes, Clary is drawn into the world of the Shadowhunters, warriors who protect humans from demons, and learns her own past is part of their hidden war.
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Fallen
Lauren Kate · 2009
Same genre: “Young adult fantasy”
- Love Triangle
- Forbidden Love
After a boy dies in a fire she cannot explain, Lucinda is sent to Sword & Cross, a bleak reform school in Savannah. There she is drawn to Daniel, a distant student she somehow knows. The shadows she has seen since childhood, and Daniel's secrets, point to a love older than her life.
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Matched
Ally Condie · 2010
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Rebellion”
In a society where the Officials choose who you love, Cassia is matched with her best friend, until a mistake shows her another face. Torn between two futures, she begins to question the system that decides everything for her.
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Divergent
Veronica Roth · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Tournament” and “Rebellion”
In a city divided into five factions, Beatrice Prior learns she does not belong to any of them. Choosing the warrior Dauntless, she hides her divergence while uncovering a plot that threatens everyone, and finds herself drawn to an instructor named Four.
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Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi · 2011
Shared in the plot: regime, military
Juliette's touch is lethal, so the world has locked her away. When a military faction offers her a chance to use her power, she must decide who to trust in a regime that would use her as a weapon.
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Uglies
Scott Westerfeld · 2005
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Rebellion”
In a future where everyone turns pretty at sixteen through surgery, fifteen-year-old Tally longs for the operation. When her friend runs away instead, Tally is sent to find her, and learns what the surgery and the society that demands it really cost.
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To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han · 2014
Similar plot moves: “Love Triangle” and “Coming of Age”
- Love Triangle
- Coming of Age
Lara Jean keeps private love letters to the boys she has liked, never meaning to send them. When the letters are mailed, she pretends to date one of the recipients to save face, and the game begins to feel real.