This being the case, terrible books often get put on a pedestal or praised simply because they are readable and have queer characters. There are POC!!! I tend to be critical of novels with queer protagonist because the lack of visibility and quality content often causes LGBTQ people to lower their standards. It has prominent queer characters (two main characters are lesbians), the romance doesn't overwhelm the rest of the story, the characters are very textured, the world building is amazing. This book is the fantasy book I have been longing for. Inspired by Indian epics, this sapphic fantasy will rip your heart out.' ( BuzzFeed News )

'This cutthroat and sapphic novel will grip you until the very end.' ( Vulture, Best of the Year)

'A fierce, heart-wrenching exploration of the value and danger of love in a world of politics and power.' ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) Simply magnificent.' (Shelley Parker-Chan, author of She Who Became the Sun ) 'Suri’s incandescent feminist masterpiece hits like a steel fist inside a velvet glove. 'Gripping and harrowing from the very start.' (R. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January) 'An intimate, complex, magical study of empire and the people caught in its bloody teeth. Together, they will set an empire ablaze. The other a powerful priestess desperate to save her family. One is a ruthless princess seeking to steal a throne. But in order to keep the truth of her past safely hidden, she works as a servant in the loathed regent’s household, biting her tongue and cleaning Malini’s chambers.īut when Malini witnesses Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. Chakraborty).Įxiled by her despotic brother, princess Malini spends her days dreaming of vengeance while imprisoned in the Hirana: an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters but is now little more than a decaying ruin. 'Raises the bar for what epic fantasy should be.' (Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights )Ī ruthless princess and a powerful priestess come together to rewrite the fate of an empire in this “fiercely and unapologetically feminist tale of endurance and revolution set against a gorgeous, unique magical world” (S.

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