![]() ![]() ![]() Suri lives in London with her family, a cat, and two rabbits. Formerly an academic librarian at Imperial College London, she is now a full-time writer. She studied English and Creative Writing at Warwick University. Suri was born in Harrow, London, to Punjabi parents they often returned to India for vacations. Strange things are happening in Ahiranya, and the rot is spreading. Emperor Chandra seeks to kill and discredit her. ![]() Empress Malini and her army move towards the imperial seat of Parijat, Harsinghar. In 2022, her novel The Jasmine Throne won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. The Oleander Sword is packed with plot and movement. Suri’s heady epic, skillfully keeping a close, human eye on the people who star in it.'Wall Street Journal, on The Oleander Sword 'Suri laid the groundwork of this artful, immensely detailed world in book one, and now allows it to explode with politics, magic, and theology. ![]() Her debut novel Empire of Sand (published in 2018) won Suri the Best Newcomer (Sydney J Bounds) Award at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards and was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time in 2020. This is like, the opposite of middle book syndrome. I'm happy to say that The Oleander Sword has cured me of this, and I'm now finding myself wanting to reread book 1, and looking forward to book 3. Tasha Suri is a British fantasy author and former academic librarian. I came away from the first book pretty underwhelmed, and not all that interested in where the story would go next. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |