A Torch Against the Night
- Published
- 30 August 2016
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN-13
- 9781101998878
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Torch Against the Night followed roughly sixteen months later, on August 30, 2016, matching the opener's length at 464 pages, continuing Laia and Elias's alternating first-person story as their shared rebellion pulls them further from opposite sides of the Martial Empire's caste system.
Key facts about A Torch Against the Night
A Torch Against the Night is a novel by Sabaa Tahir. Readers have had it since 30 August 2016. It runs to 464 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of A Torch Against the Night. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781101998878 to find the main one.
A Torch Against the Night is book 2 of 4 in An Ember in the Ashes series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with An Ember in the Ashes (2015). A Sky Beyond the Storm is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 1 December 2020.
Additionally, Sabaa Tahir writes Heir Duology as a separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, Empire is the latest published Sabaa Tahir book on file, from 22 September 2026.
About Sabaa Tahir
Sabaa Tahir is a Pakistani American author best known for An Ember in the Ashes, a young adult fantasy series set in a brutal, Rome-inspired empire, following an enslaved young woman and a soldier of the ruling class whose fates become entangled through resistance, rebellion, and forbidden connection. See every Sabaa Tahir book in order.
Its place in An Ember in the Ashes
A Torch Against the Night is book 2 in the An Ember in the Ashes series. It follows An Ember in the Ashes. It is followed by A Reaper at the Gates. See the full An Ember in the Ashes reading order.
In the brutal, Rome-inspired Martial Empire, Laia is a Scholar girl whose family is destroyed by the Empire's soldiers; to save her captured brother, she agrees to spy inside Blackcliff, the elite academy that trains the Empire's most ruthless killers, the Masks. There she crosses paths with Elias, a Blackcliff student and the academy's most gifted soldier, who wants nothing more than to desert the only life he's ever known. Told in alternating first-person chapters from Laia and Elias, the story pulls them from…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781101998878
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781536417715
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008160371