Book Review: An Ember in the Ashes

As I noted before, several blurbs compare the first volume of Sabaa Tahir's series to Game of Thrones or its literary basis, A Song of Ice and Fire. I also see multiple allusions in blurbs to Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, which makes sense given the protagonists in their late teens. Well, I enjoyed HP but have been avoiding the other two, tho this wouldn't be the first Martin-esque book to appeal to me.

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For now, I'm checking out a very short non-fantasy that I noticed in childhood but never read: Juggling for the Complete Klutz. Now if I could only find some good objects...