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The Isle of the Silver Sea is the first book I have read by Tasha Suri, and what a discovery it has been!

A fairy-tale story full of stories! London, England, which lives through stories and the revival of stories, is the place where the knight and the witch are bound to each other and doomed to die for their love. Both go in search of a solution to break this cycle, with danger coming from all sides, their own fate perhaps being the greatest danger of all.

The Isle of the Silver Sea has all the elements to tell a great story. A great atmosphere in storytelling, yearning and slow burn, LGBTQ representation, a magical system, stories, betrayal, political intrigue, character growth, action and a lot of twists. It is a story to lose your heart to.

On the other hand, it felt as if the story didn't always hang together in this stadium because there were sometimes rather sudden transitions and location jumps. I also didn't always understand everything that was going on.

Still, I found the ways in which the themes of colonialism and fate were addressed beautiful to read.

This is an arc read thanks to Netgalley