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The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

66 reviews

karcitis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

little_rainbow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

myweirdnormal's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely wonderful. I was worried about how there wasn’t a lot of action in the beginning. This book is definitely more character driven and it worked so well. 
I also don’t normally like a lot of pov chapters outside of the main characters. HOWEVER, this book absolutely changed my mind. I felt like the outside povs were necessary for understanding the world and its politics. I loved this. I’m excited to read the next!

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Content Warnings

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

vivavia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Hate crime, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

Minor: Pregnancy

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

I absolutely loved the premise. There were several difficult topics to get through, especially human sacrifice including women and children, but the slow-burn romance and the high stakes political conflict had me absolutely gripped. The prose is gorgeous and lyrical. And multiple sapphic South Asian characters? Sign me up!
It was, however, a slow go for me because there was a lot going on at once. I took down one star because there were a wide amount of characters whose POVs we got to see but I felt not enough time was spent with them. When some characters were killed off, I felt nothing, and I felt like I was unsure if I was supposed to or not. I feel like having less POVs telling the story would have made for a better story but I am absolutely going to be picking up the sequel of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Drug use, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Misogyny and Classism

shector1's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective relaxing 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Genocide, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Drug use, Grief, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

drlove2018's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Lesbophobia, War, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror

signelinnea's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

It took a little while to get into the actual story so I actually stopped reading it for a little while but once you do things happen all the time. I loved the magic system and I especially liked Bhumika, she is the moment and you need to put respect on her name <3 >:( <3. 

Bhumika is what keeps everything from falling apart and I will cry so much if she dies in the next book, I will seek vengance on Tasha Suri myself if that happens. Ashok can go die in a hole (which he did lol). I hate him so much and could not find it in me to sympathise with his cause, when he was dying  or when he was dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Violence, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Pregnancy

you get to know this very early on in the book so I don't classify this as a spoiler, if you think it is Idc. Malini (one of the main characters) is forced to take a drug that has some really awful effects on her mental state and body so beware if you're sensitive to that type of stuff.

alexiab's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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

4.5

I am absolutely loving how this story is unfolding, and I’m so excited to see how the rest of the trilogy goes.

I love when a book has a plot that just keeps coming and keeps the reader enthralled, and that’s definitely how this book was written. the use of different POV for that intimate look into a characters choices was wonderful, and the magical system being unique but easy to understand was an aspect I really enjoyed. Even when it was yucky.

Since the plot was very maintained in the one location for the most part, I think the world building felt like it was missing a little *oomf* to see exactly how detailed this world is, but I’m hoping the new adventure of book two will broaden the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Drug use, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Pregnancy

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? Yes

4.25

oh i adored everything about this world. the nature-magic, the city states, the religions, and the yaksa are all such interesting concepts and so well crafted. 

Priya, Malini and Bhumika’s characters really left an impact on me, they’re such excellently written characters with very interesting journeys. i will absolutely be reading book 2 and from where things left off i already know i’m gonna love it.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child abuse, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War