If you love enemies to lovers, against all odds, queer, sapphic romance - this book will blow you out of the water!!
Tasha Suri is a maestro at weaving tales which loop through time, space and defy the normalcy of existing romance... With this tome, she explores tales and their power to shape - a future, a heartbreak, wreak lives or build anew with each twist and turn they take. In an isle where incarnates are bound to their tales by a magic as old as time, Simran and Vina struggle to bind themselves to their roles of witch and knight caught in an endless loop to kill each other. Th eternal queen and the archivists keep incarnates on a tight leash, ensuring that no tale changes, for the whims of the protagonists alter the Isle itself. An assassin of the incarnates is roaming the land, one who defies death and is persuasive in his effort to free the tales through death.
Wound through these tangled threads are the solace of found family, the adventure of discovering new tales, and the grief of forgetting old ones, especially those told by Elsewhere (any land outside the silver sea), experiencing the art of bargaining (or making bad bargains as Vina says).. Sprinkled throughout the tale, are segues into dark forests, trysts with faes, cunning folk and witch circles, each offering a rich and unique perspective of the wounds persecution raises.
Exploring tropes of mixed cultures and marginalization of minorities, the supporting cast provides a marvelous, variegated and colorful mix of characters whom you grow to love - hate and relish their interactions. I LOVED how the second half unfolded and it was an absolute triumph of a revelation and homecoming!! you will not be disappointed!
My heartfelt thank yous to Netgalley and Orbit books for affording me this opportunity!!
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