The Lotus Empire

"The emotional sapphic marvel concluding Tasha Suri's stunning high fantasy trilogy.”

"Suri brings her Burning Kingdoms trilogy to a breathtaking crescendo in this epic grand finale. The pitch-perfect balance of action and sapphic romance will keep readers eagerly turning the pages until the remarkable conclusion. This sends the series out on a high note." 

"Sapphic yearning permeates this delectable conclusion to a landmark epic-fantasy series that touches on faith, leadership, politics, friendship and found family, grief and recovery, sacrifice, the roles of women, colonialism, and love. For all fantasy readers, particularly those who appreciated the unflinching grimness of R. F. Kuang's Poppy War series and the grand scope of Samantha Shannon's The Priory of the Orange Tree."

"Tasha Suri will go down in history as one of the great fantasy authors of this era. The Burning Kingdoms trilogy takes her extraordinary imagination, her lyrical style, and her gift for crafting intricate characters, then fires them in a furnace of war and ancient magic and sapphic yearning, giving us an epic like no other. Malini and Priya will carve themselves into your memory."

"Each page is like the unfurling of a flower as the trilogy reaches its full bloom. A powerful and poignant conclusion that reaffirms Suri as a legend in the fantasy world."

"The Lotus Empire is a searing end to a series of sweeping, epic proportions. Between the powers of gods and mortals, of empresses and priests, faith and failure, huge forces battle for survival in a sensational finale that has been years in the making.

Suri turns the screw of the story tighter and tighter, slowly pulling the carefully laid threads together until she sets the entire world ablaze. With a heart of earth-shattering love in a strategic web of political intrigue, this is a trilogy for the ages."
 

"An absolute triumph. With the Burning Kingdoms trilogy, Suri has created a world as vast as it is intricate. Brutal, beautiful, and bleeding with emotion. Do yourself a favor and pick up this series today."

"This cutthroat and sapphic novel will grip you until the very end."

"Two fierce women. Magic, action and adventure. Folklore of the past and imagining the future. Masterful storytelling. Kaleidoscopic, queer world-building. Robust characters. The first book of Tasha Suri’s new trilogy has it all!"
 

"The Jasmine Throne more than lives up to the hype with its rich and expansive world, compelling characters, cool magic system and Suri’s excellent writing, which holds it all together."

“Tasha Suri writes the female characters I didn’t realize I was aching to see in fantasy, to devastating effect. The Jasmine Throne is a fiercely and unapologetically feminist tale of endurance and revolution set against a gorgeous, unique magical world."
 

"Like the magic in this tale of reclaiming power, The Jasmine Throne will work its way under your skin with Suri’s compelling characters and gorgeous, effortless prose.”

"Suri astounds with the spellbinding epic fantasy that launches her Burning Kingdoms trilogy....a fierce, heart-wrenching exploration of the value and danger of love in a world of politics and power....Suri’s confident and passionate prose expertly guides the reader throughout. This is a blade-sharp, triumphant start to what promises to be an exciting series."

"The Jasmine Throne raises the bar for what epic fantasy should be. Tasha Suri has created a beautiful, ferocious world alongside an intimate study of the characters who will burn it all down."

“The Jasmine Throne is a riveting and gorgeously-written tale set in an intricate, expansive world. [The characters] will live in my imagination for a long time to come, and I cannot wait to see what happens next!”

"This powerful series opener will undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come."

“A masterpiece. Suri continues to storm the realm of epic fantasy. The Jasmine Throne is the powerful, female-centric series I've hungered for—with deftly-woven prose and a pair of glorious women destined to wreck your heart.”

"Lush and stunning....Inspired by Indian epics, this sapphic fantasy will rip your heart out."

"The Jasmine Throne pulls you under, sweeping you away on a current of gorgeous prose and intricately imagined magic and politics. Filled with sharply-drawn characters who ache with longing: for peace, for war, for one another. It left me breathless."

"The Jasmine Throne  is an intimate, complex, magical study of empire and the people caught in its bloody teeth. It’s about resistance and power, histories both personal and political, and the heroes who must become monsters to survive. I loved it."

"Suri’s incandescent feminist masterpiece hits like a steel fist inside a velvet glove. Blisteringly furious and astonishingly tender by turns, its women take on the patriarchal empire with every weapon at their disposal. Simply magnificent."