![]() ![]() In a heart-wrenching novel based in Islamic texts and Persian poem the Shahnameh, Mafi ( An Emotion of Great Delight) complements rich worldbuilding with lushly descriptive, sensorial prose that inspires the novel’s mythological backdrop, against which plays out an emotional plot, and a tortured romance, layered with court intrigue. Though Alizeh’s blood carries the ice that marks her as heir to an ancient kingdom that could destroy his own, he finds that he cannot forget her-setting the stage for a violent upheaval of not just his life, but of the land itself. Soon, she encounters Kamran, Ardunia’s crown prince, also 18 and olive skinned. Tahereh Mafi is the National Book Award nominated and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of An Emotion of Great Delight, the This Woven Kingdom series, the Shatter Me series, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, Whichwood, and Furthermore. ![]() Against this backdrop, olive-skinned 18-year-old Alizeh toils as a servant at a duchess’s estate following her parent’s death. Though accords eventually put an end to eons of bloodshed between Jinn and humankind, the Jinn nevertheless continue to face constant persecution, and use of their fiery powers carries the death penalty. It’s the first installment in a new trilogy from bestselling author Tahereh Mafi, probably best known for her mega-popular Shatter Me series, and it uses this history to put a refreshing twist. In the Kingdom of Ardunia, the long-ago fall of fireborn Jinn Iblees, the devil, left the Jinn a hated race. ![]()
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