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“The Burning Kingdoms trilogy is inspired by the epics of ancient India and follows Priya and Malini, two women on different sides of a conflict between the old gods of nature and a religion based on fire. Tasha Suri is one of my favourite authors – everything she writes is so intricate, and has clearly been considered with great care. She has a lyrical style, an impeccable command of plot and character, and she’s a master of yearning. The relationships she writes between women, whether romantic or platonic, are some of my favourites in all of literature. She is one of our greatest living fantasy authors, and I’m proud to be working in this Golden Age of the genre at the same time as her.” Read more...
Samantha Shannon, Novelist
“It’s a sapphic fantasy set in a fantastical, Indian-inspired world. There’s a princess, Malini, who’s been banished and imprisoned by her tyrant brother, because she wouldn’t burn herself and sacrifice her life to these fire gods that he believes in – so as punishment he sends her to a far-off province, and she has to stay in a magical temple called a Hirana. The other character is Priya, who’s hiding out in this town as a lowly maidservant, serving in one of the regent’s households and keeping very quiet – but it’s clear from the very start that she’s more than she seems. She ends up getting tasked to be one of the maidservants in the temple where the princess is being kept. And even though they try and keep them apart, the princess finds ways of making her stay, and she becomes her main maidservant. They get thrust together, and they both need each other: the princess wants to escape, and the maidservant is trying to redeem her people and get magic back in the world. They both want to get rid of the evil brother – and in doing so, they also start to fall in love.” Read more...
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A.K. Mulford, Novelist
