Title: The Jasad CrownAuthor: Sara Hashem
Series: The Scorched Throne #2
Pages: 400
Publication Date: July 15, 2025
Publisher: Orbit
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Fantasy / Romantasy
Synopsis:
Held deep in a mountain refuge, Sylvia has been captured by the Urabi, who believe she can return their homeland to its former power. But after years of denying her legacy and a forbidden alliance with Jasad’s greatest enemy, Sylvia must win the group’s trust while struggling to keep control of both her magic and her mind.
In the rival kingdom, Arin is caught between his father’s desire to put down the brewing rebellion and the sacred edicts he’s sworn to uphold. Arin must find Sylvia before his father’s army, but his search will call into question the very core of Arin’s beliefs about his family and the destruction of Jasad.
War is inevitable and Sylvia cannot abandon her people again. The Urabi plan to raise the Jasadi fortress, and it will either kill Sylvia or destroy the humanity she’s fought so hard to protect. For the first time in her life Sylvia doesn’t just want to survive. She wants to win.
The fugitive queen is ready to come home.
My thoughts on The Jasad Crown:
The Jasad Crown is one of the best books I’ve read all year and is an unforgettable, consuming conclusion to a duology that completely wrecked me in the best way. I was so excited going into this book because The Jasad Heir was one of my top fantasy reads last year (You can check out my review HERE and my favorite quotes HERE), and Sara Hashem’s sequel did not disappoint. It’s sharp, emotional, unrelenting, and exquisitely written.
Sylvia’s character arc in this book is fantastic. She’s always been a complex, layered protagonist, but here she grows into something ferocious and unapologetically herself. Watching her claim her identity, her power, and her right to lead while believing she didn’t really have a future was gripping and heartbreaking. The stakes were so high for Sylvia, and she never stopped fighting.
Arin’s chapters, too, were everything. Oof, I just adored him, and getting his point of view added so much to his character and journey. Arin is calculated and clever, but he’s also haunted by the weight of his past and the choices he’s forced to make. His story is so compelling as he’s forced to reevaluate much of what he believes and who and what he believes in. Like Sylvia, Arin goes through it! I also loved getting chapters from Sefa and Marek’s perspectives. Sefa’s quiet strength and words of wisdom, and Marek’s humor and fierce loyalty, added so much heart to the story, and I loved their relationship and their loyalty to Sylvia. All four of these characters spend a lot of the book apart, but they are often fighting to get back to each other.
Now, on to my favorite part – THE ROMANCE! The love story is almost always my favorite part of a story, and the romance between Sylvia and Arin had me absolutely swooning. It’s enemies to lovers to enemies to something deeper, messier, more painful, and all-consuming. The emotional tension is off the charts, and the way they know each other so intimately, even when they’re on opposite sides and often apart, just made every scene between them electric. And the angst, especially from Arin. I can’t even!! Theirs is the kind of romance that makes your chest ache and your heart race, and I don’t think I’ll ever get over some of their moments and the way they think and feel about each other.
And the epilogue. I genuinely don’t have the words. It was EVERYTHING – hopeful, staggeringly devastating, and absolutely PERFECT. It left me staring at the ceiling, completely gutted but thankful to the author for destroying my heart.
I can’t say enough about this one. It was a brilliant read and end to the duology. The writing is elegant, fierce, and packed with powerful quotes, poignant relationships, and an ending I’ll be thinking about for a long time to come. Special thanks to Orbit Books for sending me a copy of the book. All thoughts are my own.
Check out my favorite quotes from The Jasad Crown:
“Power hoarded where it doesn’t belong is power borrowed, and I intend to collect on the debt.”
Time was the enemy of intention.
I can’t promise to always stay, I said to his skin. But I can promise to never stop trying to come back.
May we lead the lives our ancestors were denied.
“Weak is not a mother who throws herself between a boy with none of her blood and the wrath of the man who made him,” Arin wiped the blood dripping onto his lashes. “Weak is a ruler who holds a match to the world and then blames it for burning.”
When death lives around the corner, you learn to pay no attention to its shadow.
“I wish I had a good reason for saving you. I wish it was logical or rational, informed by any semblance of reason. I wish more than anything my first thought when I emerged from the water was not of you, that I hadn’t been prepared to tear through every grain of sand and burn every tree in this damned place until I found you.”
The most volatile power is the kind that doesn’t recognize itself.
All of me is written in your name.
She was a flame sparking on the kindling of his doubt and breathing small suspicions into an incoherent blaze.
About Sara Hashem:
Sara Hashem is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Jasad Heir. An American-Egyptian writer from Southern California, she spent many sunny days holed up indoors with a book. Sara’s love for fantasy and magical realms emerged during the two years her family lived in Egypt. When she isn’t busy naming stray cats in her neighborhood after her favorite authors, Sara can be found buried under coffee-ringed notebooks.
You can find Sara on Instagram and TikTok under @shashemwrites!
I love Arin 😩 and yes totally loved the romance in this one. Great review!
Thanks, Yolanda! Glad you enjoyed it too! 😊
OMG this review is brilliant and might just be the kick I need to finally re-read book one and jump into this one… I’ve heard nothing but good things!
You need to!!! Its totally worth it!