Read-alikes

Books Like The Jasmine Throne

The Jasmine Throne is slow burn, forbidden love & captive / captor — sweet (1/5), multi-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

Malini, an imperial princess imprisoned in the ancient Hirana temple by her fanatical emperor brother, survives on the edge of forced immolation. Priya is the temple's maidservant — outwardly ordinary, secretly one of the last temple children with forbidden magic rooted in the conquered land of Ahiranya. When Malini discovers Priya's power, both women see in each other an unlikely path to survival and revenge, entangling their fates in a web of colonial politics, magical plague, and insurrection.