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The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri

 Introduction  The Isle in the Silver Sea is a story about stories, and follows the lady knight Vina and the witch-scribe Simran as they try to break the chains of their story that will force them to one day fall in love and tragically kill one another. This is the story boiled down to the bone, but so much more is needed to understand the full picture of the world the main characters live in. The premise of the book is a bit hard to grasp but at its surface it is easy to see where the story wants to take us but the journey was an unexpected pleasure. A story about stories is one of my absolutely favourite tropes and I was not disappointed - I have long since craved something that could satisfy me after A Dark and Drowning Tide . Either way, there is not much to say about this book without getting into the details, so let us begin. World building  One of best (and worst) aspects of this book is without a doubt the world building. In the beginning, absolutely nothing ...