Review: This Woven Kingdom

This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It's not the first time Tahereh Mafi's done a fantasy book, but it's the first time she's done one for the YA audience she's worked with for the vast majority of her career, and it's also pretty well steeped in the legends of a long gone by Persia as she's been hinting she'll write about for many, many years. So here we have it, the first of a promised trilogy focusing on a young woman of secret djinn heritage and a prince whose heart and soul lead him soooooooo astray as only that of a Tahereh Mafi lead could. For just over 500 pages, one of her biggest books yet, Mafi leads us around on a delicious slow burn of a story before dropping some of the most shocking cliffhangers in her history. All I'm gonna say is this: more than any other story of Mafi's since Shatter Me, this is the one I need to see them make a movie of the soonest.

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