About the Book

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

Genre: Fantasy

Release Date: Feb. 14, 2023

Book Review

“This is why fairy tales are dangerous: their words sneak into your veins and travel into the chambers of your heart, where they whisper of your exceptionalism. They say: Ah, but remember the boy who walked into the woods and came out a king? Oh, but what of the girl who was kicked and slept in ashes? Remember the man who was only kind and so life bent around the shape of his smile? But we are not exceptional.”

This spellbinding fantasy draws you into a fairytale come to life. It’s poetic, lyrical and reminds me of why fairytales are at their heart gothic stories (Hello, Grimm brothers!). The dreamlike prose takes the reader further and further from reality with each line.

When a professor studying myths reaches out to Indigo Castenada, an heiress, about viewing an item in her collection, they immediately fall for each other. Indigo has one rule – he will never ask about her past. But when her aunt is on her deathbed several years into their marriage, Indigo takes her bridegroom home to the House of Dreams. There, he finds that the secrets she’s keeping are both more alluring and horrifying than he imagined. The disappearance of Indigo’s best friend, Azure, may be the key to everything.

In flashbacks, Azure’s horrific reality of a terrible home life provides a stark contrast to the Otherworld they create for themselves, where Indigo’s obsession with finding out how to become fae becomes their reason for breathing.

Trigger warnings: child abuse, attempted rape