![]() 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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