![]() Somehow, Priya escaped and became a maidservant to the regent’s softhearted wife. So the Elders and children were burned alive. But, after her cohort passed through the first time, the rot settled in Ahiranya, a terrible sickness that seems to slowly turn people into trees. Once, Priya was a temple child who lived in the Hirana, who was meant to walk the deathless waters three times to gain power and position as an Elder. There isn’t as much romance as I expected, but I adored the story of women and just how powerful they can be. It’s a deep, dark, dangerous world where, as a female reader, I felt like I was walking a thin line. But, most of all, The Jasmine Throne is about family, burning, and power. ![]() It’s about religious ideologies and how they clash. It’s a story of empire and the tenuous strands that bind countries that can just as easily snap. The Jasmine Throne is a story of women and the power they wield. ![]() One Sentence Summary: Priya is just a maidservant, but one with an incredible power that once deemed her a monster, and the exiled Princess Malini who vows to overthrow her brother deems her useful, potentially at the cost of her heart. ![]()
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