Released June 8, 2021 

 

The Jasmine Throne 

By. Tasha Suri 

Orbit Books 

P. 480 

Format: eArc 

Rating: ****1/2 

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I received an e-arc from @Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. 

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A lot of fantasy books make you choose between having a detailed and entertaining plot, or having detailed and entertaining characters. There is only so much space in which to write the book, after all. However, The Jasmine Throne has both. 

 

Priya has a secret, one that cannot come out. However, when a princess is sent to her country for her imprisonment, everything starts escalating out of control. She finds herself working in the temple that she once grew up in. It starts to bring back memories of her childhood. Only three children escaped from the temple, the rest went up in flames. 

 

Malini is a princess whose crime was refusing to allow herself to burn. Exiled far away from the throne she has to find allies, and who is better than her maidservant with secrets of her own? 

 

I really enjoyed the world, as well as the plotting. The romance was. . . interesting. I am the least romantic person ever, so maybe I was missing something. However, I do enjoy the complicated relationships between all the characters. That is just how life is - messy and complicated. The ending was pretty predictable. There was foreshadowing long before it happened. That doesn’t make it a bad ending, just not a surprising ending. If it didn’t end that way. . . well, then there would be problems. 

 

I will absolutely be picking up this book in print as well as continuing on in the series.