" Ashes of Twilight is reminiscent of the book City of Ember, it takes place underground when it's believed that the world above is burning in massive fires because of a cataclysmic asteroid, or comet or something crashed into the Earth and the only way to survive was to go underground and preserve the Royal bloodlines for the future. Wren MacAvoy is the main character, she's a sixteen year old girl who works as a miner to mine for coal to keep the fans going so that the more privileged "royals" that live above the mines and under a protective dome don't suffocate. After Wren gathers with her friends in the mines she discovers that her crush Alex wants to find a way to get out of the dome and the mines and see whether or not there really are fires burning the Earth or if the guards and their government are lying to them all, he does find a way out but is brought back in burned and made an example to the people that the world is burning, but Wren gets close enough to hear Alex say the "the sky is blue", prompting Wren to find out the truth herself. I liked the story but felt it took forever to get anywhere after Alex proclaimed that the sky was blue. I was hoping that Wren would rally her fellow miners to charge the dome and find out for themselves what lay outside their bleak underground world. Wren and a boy named Pace develop an incredibly fast romance that was sweet and engaging but way too close and too fast for anything to truly develop, because after like TWO DAYS they were already saying "I love you" to one another! I wanted to love the story but can only settle on like because it seemed like the story itself was going in circles and then the end was so abrupt I was like,"that was fast" then it was over! It seems to me that there might be a sequel because so much was left unsaid, but I have no idea if there is or not! "
— Stefanie, 1/23/2014