Shadow Princess
Rating: 3.5/5 Title: Shadow Princess Author: Indu Sundaresan Genre: Fiction, Literary, Indian History Pages: 380 Publisher: Harper Collins India ISBN-13: 9788172239978 'Shadow Princess' is the third book in the Taj Mahal trilogy. I haven't read the previous two books and I'm glad that this book does not have a continuing story line. So if, like me, you have no idea what happens in the prequels, it is absolutely fine because this book starts anew and is a story in itself . The story opens with the delivery of Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan's fourteenth child. When she passes away due to compilations in childbirth, the powerful emperor is reduced to a forlorn figure as he struggles to come to terms with the tragedy. So great is the void that he considers giving up the mighty throne. It is then that he decides to demonstrate his love for his most belov...