My favorite aspect of the book was by far the magic system. Whether I liked the actual person and actions of characters might be a different story, but they were all really well done/written so that I enjoyed their POV even if I weren’t rooting for them. While I quickly, almost love-at-first-page like, had my favorites in The Jasmine Throne, I really enjoyed every single other POV as well, because every single one had an interesting part to tell. When having a lot of POV characters, it’s often the case that I have at least a few favorites and always want to get back to their parts of the story, caring less about the others. Tasha Suri didn’t just do it right, with a lot of different voices that are distinct, easy to tell apart, but also made this one hell of a read and experience because you have all these different characters with different intentions and goals, and reading from their POV makes you root for pretty much every single one of them, even though some work against others, even though some have opposing goals or completely different plans.Ĭharacters are really important for me and make or break a story. If done right, I absolute love multi-POV stories, when there is more than just one or two, but a larger group of them.

I pretty much loved it from the very first page. Sometimes I start reading a book, and I don’t know what it is exactly, maybe the characters, maybe the setting, maybe the writing itself or a mix of all these, but I’m just immediately transfixed and unable to stop reading without being able to tell yet what exactly it is that has me glued to the pages. Together, they will change the fate of an empire. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne.

She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.īut when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters - but is now little more than a decaying ruin. This did not affect my opinion or the content of this review. I received this book for free from the publisher.

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