Neverlandever

I know how I wanna spend the time I've got left. You're gonna spend it with us, Andy.

The Burning Kingdoms trilogy is an incredible exploration of love, power, and what happens when things are not what they seem. It also tackles the aftermath of imperialism, and it's sapphic! So let's see how the incomparable Tasha Suri catches her readers.

In the court of the imperial mahal, the pyre was being built. The frafrance of the gardens drifted in through the high windows--sweet roses, and even sweeter imperial needle-flower, pale and fragile, growing in such thick profusion that it poured in through the lattice, its white petals unfurled against the sandstone walls. The priests flung petals on the pyre, murmuring prayers as the servants carried in wood and arranged it carefully, applying camphor and ghee, scattering drops of perfumed oil.

-- The Jasmine Throne

"Have you ever seen a girl of greater purity, my prince?" Those words were not meant for Kartik, but he heard them all the same. High Priest Hemanth stood with his head bowed close to the young prince's ear. His voice was pitched low, but his words still carried. That could not be helped. The High Priest's voice was rich and unmistakable--a vast thing, neither loud nor soft, but pervasive. It was a voice made for mantras, for song, for guidance. For pouring faith, like wine, into the cup of a waiting heart.

-- The Oleander Sword

This was her last hope. The monsoon rain was pouring. The woman rode through it on horseback, without the cover of a parasol, letting the water soak her through. The trees of the forest loomed around her, black in the fading light. She missed, with a sudden and knife-sharp grief, the flower gardens of home. White jasmine and needle-flower, and her pink roses. There were no trees to loom over he there, and no parched battlefields underfoot, seeded with nothing but dead flesh to draw scavenging birds.

" the world is full of unanswered questions. beyond all limits, all reason ... the answers await. "

"𝙄𝙛 𝙄 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙡."

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A fanart of Princess Malini from 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗺𝘀 books by Tasha Suri 🔥 I'm soo excited for The Lotus Empire release. Another reason why November can't come soon enough!