4.5 
 "My Soul's gone." He looks away. "I killed it dead on that battlefield yesterday." 
 I think of Spiro Teluman then. Of what he said to me the last time I saw him. "There are two kinds of guilt," I say softly. " The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to b. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged, but it's there. Don't let them take it from you, Elias 
 VICTORY IS MINE! haha that feeling you get when you get out of a reading slump is one that is very hard to describe but to me it's like a Saturday night locked in your room with a shit load of chocolate (I hope I'm not the only one who does that). I was planning on reading this a couple of weeks ago and then never got around to it. But after so desperately trying to enjoy one of the longest and most boring books I've read in a long time, let's just say I needed a break. Then suddenly Youtube's on it's 3 am and I somehow forgot I had a good 4 hours of homework to do (Why do you do this to me). This lasted about a week until I banned my self from the internet (which didn't last long) and picked up a damn book, (I'm like 20 books behind on my reading challenge so it was a good idea too) it just so happened that I spotted An Ember in the Ashes and it's a very pretty book (though I think all books are pretty) so I decided to read it, determined to read it and get out of my reading slump. 
 Enough rambling this has definelty been worth the read LOVED IT! I knew beforhand it was probably something I'd like, cuz what can I say I'm fantasy obsessed. This is the perfect book for me and I so very desperatley want the second book. It has action, romance, a 'lil bit of blood plus it was blurbed by Brandon Sanderson, King of Fantasy (So go read the damn book). 
 "Destiny?" I laugh, a bitter laugh. "What destiny?" 
 Everything here is blood and violence. After I graduate tomorrow, nothing will change. The mission, the viciousness, will wear me down until there is nothing left of the boy the Augurs stole fourteen years ago. Maybe that's a type of destiny. But it's not one I'd choose for myself. 
 "This life is not always what we think it will be," Cain says "you are an ember in the ashes, Elias Venturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it. 
 I'm just going to say that this book follows two characters Laia and Elias. Laia is a slave and Elias a soldier, and throughout the book their paths intertwine as they come across conflict. 
 "You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes. That is your destiny." 
 You know at the end of the book where suddenly everything starts happening and your just sitting there clinging to your seat, eyes wide wondering how the fuck everything just happened still trying to process because you think your brain might be broken. That didn't quit happen for me book, sorry my mind started to wander, but don't worry the end was good just not mind blowing good but in a damn girl get me the next book and anything else written by this author. 
 Okay my brain feels like mush from the heat and I don't think I can keep writing (and if I do it'll make zero sense), definitely read An Ember in the Ashes one of my favourite reads of 2015 in case you were wondering. Happy Tuesday!