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The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

65 reviews

reinedespres's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, and War

Minor: Abandonment

misoreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

WOMEN—
Tasha Shuri has written some of the strongest, wittiest and most morally grey women I've read and I love them for that. Bhumika, Malini and Priya are amazing characters and hard carry the story on their wise, fearless, ambitious shoulders. I love them so very much and would literally die for them 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Homophobia, Sexism, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

freya_amber's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Suicide attempt and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

juliaaaaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

for_esme_with_love's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

mar's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Blood, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

inkwelling's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Colonisation

kathleencoughlin's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

My final and favorite of last year's sapphic trifecta. The magic system was interesting and the characters were dynamic and complex. Good stuff 👍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

e_flah's review

challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

The Jasmine Throne was a mixed reading experience for me. I really enjoyed the themes of the novel, such as how power should be used and what form opposing imperialism should take. The implementation of these themes just didn't click. This is a slow read that never really hooked me. The plot particularly meanders for the first 50% or so and even once things started happening, I kept wishing for more action.

Malini, Priya, and Bhumika were fascinating as main characters. Each of them had layers and layers that kept me wondering how well the reader really knew them. The ties binding these characters -- family and love and obligation -- were wonderfully done. They made for a lot of internal and external conflict, which propelled the story forward in interesting ways. I'm surprised to say this but I wish some of the main male characters had been a bit more developed. Priya's brother, Ashok, felt a bit flat despite having his own POV and playing a large role in the story. Some additional character development, especially as many of these male characters had their own POVs, would've made parts of the story a bit more interesting as some big conflicts really boiled down to X character is just cruel, a jerk, etc.

Overall, I can appreciate a lot of elements of The Jasmine Throne even though I didn't personally enjoy it that much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse

death of a loved one, death by burning

ruuntvoces's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror and Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia