The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Chokshi’s writing style is lush and evocative of beloved fairy tales — mysterious, ambiguous, and totally elusive, which is what Indigo represents for the unnamed husband. Her writing does occasionally get bogged down in the stylistic swerves that the writing takes, which sometimes distracts the reader from what exactly is happening. That could be seen as a metaphor for Indigo, whose beauty shrouds the groom in secrecy, hoping that he strays from the path. This is the kind of divisive, polarizing book that people will either love or hate. I can easily imagine someone writing a scathing critique of the overwrought prose, melodramatic dialogue, and ridiculously over-the-top narrative elements. I’m really loving this so far. I like the author’s other work so I thought I would. I’m loving the Bluebeard vibes but with a gender-switch and that wife being the one with a secret. They are representative of the best and worst parts of me. What’s sentimental can turn strangling; what’s imaginative can tilt insidious; what’s perceptive can skew paranoid. And like many people, I’m often at odds with myself.

Their relationship, in many ways, represents the tension of growing up. It's the desire to stay young enough, stay innocent enough, that fairyland and fairy world makes itself known to you. Like in an age at which magic is not just a possibility, but it is real. And then the tension of growing up and essentially realizing that the other world is now closed to you.” PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Last_Tale_of_the_Flower_Bride_-_Roshani_Chokshi.pdf, The_Last_Tale_of_the_Flower_Bride_-_Roshani_Chokshi.epub I am a fan of Roshani Chokshi’s writing, so I knew I had to read her adult debut The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, and I think this book is excellent. Even though I think it was marketed slightly incorrectly, it worked for me. Darkly gorgeous and utterly entrancing, Chokshi’s adult fairy tale is as deadly as any fable of old; the lush, glittering prose and haunting mystery gilding a story sharper than a huntsman’s blade.” I think I actually hated this? It's not a bad book, it's just a terrible book for me. (And already a major contender for worst book of 2023!)

As Azure attempts to form her own identity beyond Indigo’s control, psychological bonds begin to tear. These fractures in the relationship provide the conduit for physical destruction. Azure disappears, and the resulting cover-up seems to be why Indigo told her husband to not ever look into her past. Roshani Chokshi’s first adult novel, The Last Tale of the Flower Bride, is richly steeped in fairy tales and myths. It’s the story of heiress Indigo Maxwell-Castenada, as revealed through the eyes of her husband, known simply as The Bridegroom, and her childhood friend, Azure. The narrative alternates between the present and the past, allowing both The Bridegroom and Azure to illuminate the true nature of their relationship with Indigo while within the walls of her eerie childhood home, the House of Dreams. Until that moment, my life has been about the collecting of knowledge. Now the House of Dreams was tempting me with a different ending if only I would do it’s bidding…Thus, like all the fair-of-face fools before me, I rejected my knowledge and I believed’

The ones I always return to and find something new are the tales of “Savitri and Satyavan,” “Bluebeard,” “Eros and Pysche” and “Orpheus and Eurydice.”She was coltish and long-femured, the joints of her shoulders so tanned and glossy her bones shone."I'm not into lyrical, purple prose in general. Poetry does nothing but make me crabby, so there's definitely a thin line that I don't want to be crossed. Just say something and get to the point, don't paint around it and describe it in a series of metaphors and call that a paragraph. Also-- can someone with the ebook tell me how many times "slash" is used? Cause I swear every mouth was a "slash." It wants to be edgy, it wants to be mysterious, it wants to be beautiful... but I just felt like it was wasting my time. Chokshi liberally sprinkles breadcrumbs throughout her telling of the many recurring symbols, imagery, and motifs of traditional fairy tales: abusive parents, princesses, keys, apples, rings, glass houses, towers, forests, jewels, and riches. Roshani Chokshi’s adult debut novel The Last Tale of the Flower Bride carries the gothic setting to otherworldly, a sentiment that is much too real, levels. Centered around the premise of an unnamed husband uncovering his mysterious wife’s secrets, the novel aptly reflects the phrase: “Curiosity killed the cat.” Its theme of domestic secrets nods to the Bluebeard tale, but The Last Tale of the Flower Bride also develops new understandings that play with the tropes of fairy tales and spin something completely new out of them. Roshani Chokshi's transfixing first novel for adults is a fairytale-infused story about marriage and the secrets couples keep from each other. That, and an enchanted house off the coast of Washington and hotel fortune." - Today.com So Roshani, what is next for you ? Can you share details of any future projects? Will you be returning to adult fantasy in the future?