Today’s review is of what was probably our single most anticipated release of 2021. If, for whatever reason, you haven’t already heard about The Jasmine Throne, let this be your moment of epiphany. And, if you trust only one of our recs this whole year, let it be this one. The Jasmine Throne is probably one of the best books to be released this year, if not all time. It’s a book that will leave you hollowed out and unable to even think of picking anything else up for the foreseeable future.
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Author of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess’s traitor brother.
Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters — but is now little more than a decaying ruin.
Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.
But when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.
The Jasmine Throne
Tasha Suri
Rep: Indian-coded cast, lesbian mcs
CWs: violence, gore, homophobia, execution by burning, forced drug use
Release: 10th June 2021