Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

37 reviews

jessiereads98's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

Excellent high fantasy and excellent feminist storytelling. This is how you create a feminist story without monologues that seem out character or long bits of exposition that are discordant with the tone and atmosphere of the story. I loved the world, politics, and magic of this book. The characters are complex and I do find it difficult at times to fully understand some of them. I may not be picking up inferences I’m meant to. I do find the romance between the two main characters to be a bit underdeveloped. I found it difficult to follow the development of chemistry between the characters and progression of the relationship. It seemed as if we were told they were here in the relationship and had these feelings for each other without really seeing that develop. It wasn’t out of the realm of believability though and did not really take away from the overall story for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Murder, Violence, Addiction, Confinement, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Colonisation, Grief, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, War, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Physical abuse

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, War, Drug abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Colonisation, Lesbophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Medical content, and Blood

5aru's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective 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? No

3.5

A strong beginning for the trilogy, with a fascinating — though rather vague — worldbuilding and complex female characters to drive the narrative forward. I wasn't extremely sold on Priya and Malini's chemistry, but their relationship is well developed given their circumstances, and it looks like it will get even more complicated going forward. Shit's about to get messy and I can't wait to watch.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Death

Moderate: Abandonment and Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia

Malini spends a large part of the book forcibly imprisoned while being slowly poisoned.

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: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, War, Blood, Classism, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Violence, Addiction, Bullying, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Vomit, and Alcohol

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

Minor: Pregnancy

rat_girly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Beginning was very slow but it built into a beautifully described world full of complex characters, mystery, and action. Themes of revolution, colonisation, feminism, queer romance, enemies to lovers set in a south Asian inspired fantasy world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexism, Hate crime, Colonisation, Blood, Child death, War, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Violence, Grief, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Classism

lvjysunday's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Drug abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Pregnancy, and War

lqvekanej's review

adventurous challenging emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Classism, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Homophobia

serenedancer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

Well written sapphic fantasy book with a lot of political intrigue.

I really liked the characters and their relationships, how they played off each other. It also explored the politics of revolutions and how different people can want the same goal but won't take the same path.

There are many morally grey characters so if that's an issue, I would suggest against the book. Also, there are many moving parts so make sure to be aware of that.

Overall, I'd recommend both the written and the audiobook. Especially for pronunciations. But overall it's a very well done audiobook.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Racism, Violence, Child abuse, Colonisation, and Sexism

Minor: Abandonment

charming_killerqueen's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: War and Abandonment

Minor: Homophobia

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, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Death

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

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