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- Content warnings: Violence, Murder, Body horror, Immolation, Self-immolation, Grief, Colonialism, War, Betrayal, Torture, Blood, Fire, Manipulation, Religious trauma, Drowning, Death of loved one, Genocide
The Lotus Throne
by Tasha Suri
Book 3 in The Burning Kingdoms
A devastating sapphic epic fantasy conclusion where love and empire collide. Priya and Malini are forced to opposite sides of a war neither wanted, and the emotional payoff of three books of yearning hits like a freight train.
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Length25 pages
Series statusCompleted series · 3 books
Spice3/5 · Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
PacingMedium
Story profile
What the story promises
The strongest reviewed signals about romance, fantasy, and the reading experience.
Romance promise
- Forbidden love
- F/F
- Slow burn
- Medium
- Emotional / vulnerable intimacy
- The angst delivered
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- Mutual pining
- Passionate / intense
- Beautiful grief
- Power dynamic
- Earned hope
- Power imbalance
- Tension
- Cathartic release
- Star-crossed
- Anticipation
- Closure
- Enemies to lovers
- Longing glances
- Reluctant allies to lovers
- Eye contact intensity
- Betrayal to trust
- Touch starvation
- Push and pull
- Power exchange
- Magic-infused intimacy
Fantasy promise
- Romantasy
- Royal court / palace
- High fantasy
- Gods/deities
- Elementals
- Spirits
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- Magic bond
- Star-crossed lovers
- Forced alliance
- Survival romance
Reading experience
- Multi-POV
- Dark
- Lyrical
- Heavy
- High
- Reluctant chosen one
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- Queer
- Intense
- Atmospheric
- Warrior/fighter
- Sapphic
- Immersive
- Morally gray
- BIPOC MC
- Emotional
- Queen / ruling monarch
- BIPOC love interest (LI)
- Epic
- Dramatic
- Protector
- Angsty
- Lush
- Bittersweet
- Haunting
- Tense
- War-torn kingdom
- Survival against impossible odds
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Book details
- Length
- 25 pages
- Language
- English
- Format
- Book