ARC Review of 'THE TAPESTRY OF FATE' by Shannon Chakraborty

Shannon Chakraborty's Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi series has been one of the standout fantasy runs of recent years, and with The Tapestry of Fate, the New York Times bestselling author delivers a second installment that builds confidently on everything that made Book One worth reading.

It is a bigger, deeper and in places more emotionally ambitious story, and it largely delivers on all of it.

This is the second book in the Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi trilogy, and it picks up with our favorite retired pirate in what passes for a comfortable arrangement: sailing the Indian Ocean on errands for a council of immortal peris, collecting arcane artifacts, and making it home in time to raise her daughter Marjana. Not perfect, but manageable.

Then her demon husband Raksh goes and burns it all down, and Amina finds herself handed the kind of mission that comes with no good options: sail to an island no one has ever escaped, and steal a spindle from a sorceress who wove the enchantments trapping it. Simple enough.

What follows is faster, stranger, and emotionally sharper than Book One. The crew dynamic remains one of the great joys of this series: Dalila, Tinbu, Majed, the irresistible chaos of Raksh, but Chakraborty turns the focus inward here in ways that genuinely surprise. The friendship between Amina and Dalila in particular is developed with real depth and tenderness, and it carries the novel through its more demanding passages with grace.

The mythology expands beautifully too. The peris, once seemingly benevolent patrons, begin to reveal a far more complicated history, and the sorceress at the center of the mission is not the villain the setup implies. Chakraborty consistently refuses the easy choice, and the story is richer for it.

The ensemble feels stretched thin in the middle act, and the book misses the full-crew energy when the group is separated. But the payoff is so worth it!

The Tapestry of Fate is propulsive, warm and quietly devastating in its final act. Chakraborty is doing some of her best work here, and this trilogy is already something genuinely special.

A huge thank you to Harper Voyager and Emily Dansky in particular for the advance review copy, and to Shannon Chakraborty for generously taking the time to speak with us (Ash from Avenorse, WIC) ahead of publication. It was an absolute pleasure.

ISBN: 9780062963543

Pub Date: May 12, 2026