The Isle in the Silver Sea
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering standalone romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries.
★ “Beautifully inevitable and surprising at the same time." –Kirkus (Starred Review)
★ “A sensuous and haunting story of love beyond time.” –Library Journal (Starred Review)
In an England 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?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
World Fantasy Award winner Suri (The Jasmine Throne) weaves a haunting tale of sapphic love and cyclical fate in an alternate Britain sustained by stories that play out again and again via reincarnation. In this folklore-rich realm, incarnates are born to fulfill specific tales, none more tragic than the Knight and the Witch, doomed lovers who fall for and die for each other across countless lifetimes. When the latest incarnations, Vina, a knight of the Queen's court, and Simran, a forest witch, begin their fated romance, they're determined to break the cycle and find a happy ending—especially as a mysterious assassin begins killing other incarnates, threatening the Isle's very existence. Suri crafts a rich, atmospheric world steeped in faerie bargains and medieval folklore and uses her magic system to explore themes of colonial erasure and who gets to control their own narrative. Though the romance feels less developed than the intricate worldbuilding and the book's ambitious scope might have benefited from being split into a duology, Suri's gorgeous prose and inventive premise create an immersive experience. Readers craving sapphic fantasy with folkloric elements will find this hits the spot.
