


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. But I survived! So we're good and I can now fill my train journey with my next read: The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri!Īuthor of Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess's traitor brother. It's the sounds, and the knowing someone will be staring into your mouth and judging your life-choices.

I also had a rough week with two dentist visits which were highly necessary but still fill me with horror. It's Friday and I'm about to head to the station to grab a train to see my mother for the first time since last September! Can't wait, even though the traveling still fills me with a little bit of COVID-dread.
