Genre: Epic Fantasy 🪷🗡️ | Tropes/Themes: Inspired by Indian History and Epics; Multiple POV; Sapphic; Priestess/Queen; Feminine Power/Wrath; Deities | 🌶️: 🌶️ (cracked door) | Medium: audiobook 🎧, narrator Shiromi Arserio | CW: explicit violence (including war, immolation, self-immolation); gender-based violence; misogyny; homophobia and internalized homophobia; self-mutilation; abusive family dynamics; child endangerment and abandonment; grief and loss; forced familial separation; body horror (plant-based, cosmic, gore); colorism; suicidal thoughts and ideation | | | Review: | I just need to ship my heart to Tasha Suri, she rips it out of my chest enough (if you happen to read this, don’t worry it’s a joke). I can’t believe I’m done. Im greedy, I want more 😭 | This series has it all: love, longing, heartache, war, political intrigue, adventure, magic, gods, demigods and a million other things. I dreamt of Parijat and of being on the Hirana 🥹 my soul left my body at every turn and I’m not sure it’s back yet | Shiromi is such a wonderful narrator. The little addition of things like teeth chattering in the cold and actual inhales and exhales when written were so tasteful and well done! I will definitely be on the look out for more of her narrations