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A review by beforeviolets
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Embarrassed this took me three years to finally take this off my shelf and read it! I ate this up.
I did feel like time and space were a little vague, I was having a hard time figuring out how far apart things were from each other and how much time passed, but other than that this was so well done.
I adored the characters, each felt so strongly defined and were fascinating to follow. The world-building and the details of each religion and their impacts on the characters and the politics and the world was just unbelievably scrumptious. The romance was great, but honestly I barely even cared about it in comparison to how deep and rich the world-building was. I just needed to know everything about the rot, the deathless waters, the yaksa, the nameless one, the mothers, etc. Each piece of lore was like candy to me.
There's no question that I'll be continuing this series.
CW: fire, imprisonment, war, drugging, murder, illness, violence, blood & gore, immolation, suicidal ideation, addiction & withdrawal, hallucinations, misogyny, homophobia, character death, drowning, grief, emesis, alcohol, child death (past, recounted), animal death, pregnancy, childbirth (off-page) parental death (past), death of family members
I did feel like time and space were a little vague, I was having a hard time figuring out how far apart things were from each other and how much time passed, but other than that this was so well done.
I adored the characters, each felt so strongly defined and were fascinating to follow. The world-building and the details of each religion and their impacts on the characters and the politics and the world was just unbelievably scrumptious. The romance was great, but honestly I barely even cared about it in comparison to how deep and rich the world-building was. I just needed to know everything about the rot, the deathless waters, the yaksa, the nameless one, the mothers, etc. Each piece of lore was like candy to me.
There's no question that I'll be continuing this series.
CW: fire, imprisonment, war, drugging, murder, illness, violence, blood & gore, immolation, suicidal ideation, addiction & withdrawal, hallucinations, misogyny, homophobia, character death, drowning, grief, emesis, alcohol, child death (past, recounted), animal death, pregnancy, childbirth (off-page) parental death (past), death of family members