The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri
Overall Rating - 4.75
Emotional Impact Score - 4
Thought-Provoking Score - 3.5
Character Score - 5
Plot Score - 4.25
Worldbuilding Score - 4
Prose Score - 4.75
I want to start off by saying that this was the first time I’ve ever conciously noted the prose of a book. The way the author used such flowery descriptive language was captivating.
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Her voice was a lazy curl of smoke, a rich woman’s voice, beautiful and thoroughly obnoxious.
The emotional journey that the two FMC’s go through is one that is of two-parts. Each individual has their own grief and trauma to go through by themselves and also together. A very central theme of this is tackling what it means to decide your own fate versus what’s “decided” for you. I’m a very big fan of found family scenarios and a secondary enemies to lovers plotline. The world taking place in a familiar setting allows you to more easily imagine and be able to picture what things look like and what the people are experiencing.
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Her Galath, Elayne’s Galath, finally knew love and family. He knew it with her only family: Hari, her brother of choice, the only person she’d let stay close; and Vina, her Vina.
Overall, this book was very sweet. I loved the way it was written. If you want a fantasy written in the UK featuring a diverse cast, I would highly recommend The Isle in the Sea.