Well since I devoured the Twentieth Wife I figured I should finish the series.
This book picks up a couple of weeks after the finish of the Twentieth Wife ends. This one is def more about the politics after Nur Jahan is married to the Emperor, her struggle to rise to the power in the harem and the struggle to keep that power. She also battles with people who view her as a threat - a threat to the empire, to their way of life and to themselves.
This one was more of a struggle than the last one (even tho the last one frustrated me). I'm more of an enjoyer of sweeping stories, romance and less of politics and this was FULL of politics. I think the power, like with most people, went to her head and she far over stepped her boundaries. However those that were against her plotted against her - did they push her to make the decisions she made? In the beginning she asked to be equal to the Emperor, in a land where the Emperor is the ultimate be all and end all. So did she push people to be her enemies by gaining so much power, thusly her enemies pushing back and then just the domino effect? I will let you as the reader judge.
If you read the Twentieth Wife then I would recommend this as your second read too.
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