The Isle in the Silver Sea was exactly what I needed. I knew it would be emotionally devastating and it was. I know what I am getting into when I pick up a book by Tasha Suri. Keep reading this book review of The Isle in the Silver Sea for my full thoughts.
Summary
In a Britain fuelled by stories, the knight and the witch are fated to fall in love and doom each other over and over, the same tale retold over hundreds of lifetimes.
Simran is a witch of the woods. Vina is a knight of the Queen’s court. When the two women begin to fall for each other, how can they surrender to their desires, when to give in is to destroy each other?
As they seek a way to break the cycle, a mysterious assassin begins targeting tales like theirs. To survive, the two will need to write a story stronger than the one that fate has given to them.
But what tale is stronger than The Knight and the Witch?
Review
(Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)
Tasha Suri always brings the swoons and rich fantastical worlds. In The Isle in the Silver Sea, we have a world run on the power of stories, of falling into our fate, and wondering if we can ever escape our roles. It’s about powers which force us into rigid constraints, which intoxicate us with promise and sacrifice in the name of allegiance. We witness the power of our story ending early. Suri explores themes of choice and fate. If we are are chosen and forced into a role, a story, a tale as old as time, how can we escape the tragedies? How do we make our own stories?
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The Isle in the Silver Sea is an emotional and romantic story about what we would do to be with – or to spurn – the ones we love. When we think all of our steps are planned, how do we ever learn from our mistakes? If we are always what others need, how do we know what we need? Suri’s standalone continues expanding on this world to showcase how Simran and Vina’s love, their story, is bigger than just them. There’s plenty of emotional angst as we witness a story about stories themselves. I had the highest hope for The Isle in the Silver Sea and they were absolutely confirmed and smashed through! Find The Isle in the Silver Sea on Goodreads, Storygraph, Amazon(UK), Bookshop. org, Blackwells, & Libro. fm.