Paperback, 533 pages

Published June 6, 2021 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-53851-0
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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.

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So, let’s talk about Tasha Suri’s truly excellent, The Jasmine Throne. I had put a hold in for this book at my local library. It then ended up coming in at the same time as another hold, so I had a dilemma—which book to read first? I turned to my Twitter comrades to make the choice, and they overwhelmingly pointed me toward The Jasmine Throne. I picked it up, and was not disappointed.

Suri is telling an engrossing story of loyalty and love, loss and persistence, biological family and found family, and perhaps most importantly of all, the nature of monstrous identity. To say all this might make it seem like this novel is of a more literary nature, but that’s not the case. Genre fiction can tell these sorts of stories, and Suri shows just how well the fantasy genre can do so. The two main characters, …

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