![]() Chokshi’s rich, descriptive writing weaves a lush web that almost hides the lack of character development this is a book exclusively concerned with telling, and style overwhelms substance throughout. What follows is a play on the classic love-betrayal-redemption arc of Cupid and Psyche or Beauty and the Beast. And then, at the moment she is to drink poison, a mysterious, handsome stranger appears and whisks her away to the Otherworld, the place of demons and magic. ![]() When her father asks her to sacrifice her life to save their kingdom, Maya has no choice. ![]() In a fantasy world influenced by Indian mythology, a young princess lives in scorn because of the horoscope that decrees she will marry “death and destruction.”īut adversity breeds strength, and “dusky-complexioned” Maya has spent her childhood and adolescence reading mythology and history, spying on her father’s councils, and weaving magical stories for her beloved half sister. ![]()
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