BOOKS
THE JASMINE THRONE
Royal flushed
★★★★☆
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RELEASED OUT NOW! 592 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook
► Author Tasha Suri
► Publisher Orbit Books
You don’t get much romance in epic fantasy. What with all the trekking and questing and world-saving, there just isn’t time for meet-cutes or pining or cataloguing every not-soaccidental arm brush. Right?
Wrong, says the opening volume of Tasha Suri’s follow-up to her award-winning Books Of Ambha duology; in fact, why can we not have both?
In this lush fantasy version of medieval India, an imprisoned princess can take on an evil emperor and also make space in her schedule to ogle her maidservant’s excitingly muscly arms. Said maidservant can be both a secret acolyte of powerful, forbidden magic and still sometimes forget how to breathe when she makes eye contact with the infuriatingly attractive princess she’s guarding.