I had a feeling that I would love The Jasmine Throne from the very first time I’d heard about it. All quotes are from an advance copy and may differ in final publication.

This did not affect my opinion in any way. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.Īmazon – B&N – Book Depository – IndieBound – Bookshop Thank you to Orbit for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.īut when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. 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.

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.

Since it releases today (in the US), I’m bringing you a review of The Jasmine Throne, where I can hopefully convince you to pick it up and wait in eager anticipation for the next book with me!!Īuthor 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. The f/f romance (especially with morally grey characters) certainly does not disappoint, but the book also holds so much more than just romance: It’s a complex story about women and empire and every way those two things can intersect. It will always feel special to me as a sapphic Asian, but something about these books truly just hit in a way like no other, and that’s no exception with The Jasmine Throne.

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