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A review by worm_food
The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
4.5
Very good!!!! The worldbuilding was absolutely stunning and the writing so easy to follow and enjoyable, it finds a very good balance between the flowering poetic and the practical, the descriptions of everything made the book feel so alive. The magic system was also made so intuitively easy to understand and each character stood out beautifully with each their own internal narrative.
I really liked so many of the choices made for all the characters too - making someone so complex but also not all powerful can have the risk of the audience not fully following their logic or interests within the plot but it is just so much more realistic to have people's alliances shift without a whole paragraph dedicated to how groundbreaking of an event that is. It made the characters feel a lot more realistic in how they reacted to sit ations but within that bargain some character intensity (that can make for more memorable personalities n moments) is lost - in the beginning I wasn't sure about it but now I am really fond of it as a choice.
I think I set the bar quite high for this one because of the lesbian fantasy trifecta memes, and unfo tunately so far Shannon's and to me especially Shelley Parker Chan's works are a lot better at building themes from the get go - but ADOFN and HWDTW were much much better than their predecessors so I have a LOT of hope for this one's sequels!! It didn't make me go absolutely batshit insane but I can see that happening w this series very soon.
I really liked so many of the choices made for all the characters too - making someone so complex but also not all powerful can have the risk of the audience not fully following their logic or interests within the plot but it is just so much more realistic to have people's alliances shift without a whole paragraph dedicated to how groundbreaking of an event that is. It made the characters feel a lot more realistic in how they reacted to sit ations but within that bargain some character intensity (that can make for more memorable personalities n moments) is lost - in the beginning I wasn't sure about it but now I am really fond of it as a choice.
I think I set the bar quite high for this one because of the lesbian fantasy trifecta memes, and unfo tunately so far Shannon's and to me especially Shelley Parker Chan's works are a lot better at building themes from the get go - but ADOFN and HWDTW were much much better than their predecessors so I have a LOT of hope for this one's sequels!! It didn't make me go absolutely batshit insane but I can see that happening w this series very soon.