Ascend
No CoverAsh battles the evil Directorate and grapples with Finn's coldness in a dystopian uprising.
Ash battles the evil Directorate and grapples with Finn's coldness in a dystopian uprising.
Riley is the top-secret pen-name of a NYT and USA Today best-selling author. ... Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! ... I honestly really struggled with Ascend by K.A. Riley. The romance that had annoyed me before went to all new heights as Ashen flipped between grieving her, apparently, dead stalker boyfriend and hoping, praying, begging that he was secretly alive. Literally every other page featured some sort of soppy paragraph about her needing to feel his
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Central angst-heavy romance with grief and longing; non-explicit YA intimacy
Deadly fights, battle deaths, and brutal uprising violence; intense peril
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No fantasy magic elements depicted
No occult or demonology content depicted
Central themes of authoritarian rule, class divide, resistance, and uprising
Brief on-page suicide that is not revisited afterward
Dystopian oppression, trauma, and systemic cruelty under the Directorate
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