The Isle in the Silver Sea
- 496
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Isle in the Silver Sea” is an ambitious sapphic romantasy about a witch and a knight fated to love and ruin each other in every life. Tasha Suri sets it in a Britain run on stories and medieval folklore, where an assassin hunts down tales like theirs. Some readers are left unmoved by the love story and the magic. Those who enjoy books about storytelling itself will find much to savour.
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About the book
From World Fantasy Award-winning author Tasha Suri comes The Isle in the Silver Sea, a heart-shattering romantasy of sapphic longing, medieval folklore and a love that spans the centuries. In a Britain 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? 'Fiercely tender, wildly imaginative, and deeply smart, The Isle in the Silver Sea is an ode to the power of stories themselves--both to shackle us to our destinies, and to free us from them. One of my new all-time favourites' Alix E. Harrow
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 30 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 17% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 30 | 100% |
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