Jerée's most ambitious work yet, The Flowers I Deserve is a dreamy, steamy, and lusciously sapphic romantasy about grief. Haunted by the loss of her mother, transformation of her father, and erasure of her homeland, Carlotta makes her way through a court full of compelling allies and fervent opposition— though she does so with the favor of the King, who harbors secrets of her own.

Jerée's characteristic exploration of religious trauma takes on a more subdued, fantastical appearance in this story, but is no less potent for it. Although religious themes are a part of Carlotta's past and the world, the beating heart of this book is its dreamlike exploration of loss and healing.

if you're looking for a sapphic romantasy with high spice and a piercing, ethereal narrative about intimacy, displacement, and grief grief grief, this may be the book for you. I certainly loved it.

The title almost reads as the review for this book and author. Yes, Tamara, you deserve those flowers and we're going to give them go you.

Enchanting prose, characters and plot!

Tamara could write a beautiful, heartbreaking play by play of how they were going to kill me, and id be like .. justified!!! There's something about their writing that makes me feel both dreamlike and like I'm not qualified to read it. I do anyway, ofc.

As always, the prose is too good and I fear it makes me wanna dislike Tamara so bad. Be bad at something! It's polite!!!

Unreasonably sexy and devastating in equal measure. Something I know will be prevelant in all their stories, and a main reason I am kicking people out of the way to read it.

Thank you netgalley for the arc, all thoughts are my own 🤍