A review by brokenrecord
Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

3.0

I liked this well enough, but I felt like I should've gotten more invested in the romance than I did, since a slow burn arranged marriage romance plot is 100% my thing. I also was interested in reading a fantasy in a different setting than I usually read, but unfortunately I'm generally not that into fantasy where gods play a huge role (in any setting, not just this type — it's very much a, "It's not you, it's me," kind of thing. Those kinds of stories rarely capture my interest for whatever reason), so while I didn't dislike my plot, it just wasn't really my thing. I don't think this was a bad book by any means, and I did enjoy reading it, just not as much as I would've hoped. But I do think it's likely to work better for other people than it did for me.