{"id":20098,"date":"2025-04-27T16:51:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=20098"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T20:51:31","slug":"shalini-abeysekara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/shalini-abeysekara\/","title":{"rendered":"Shalini Abeysekara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Shalini Abeysekara is a former corporate lawyer living in Hamilton, Ontario. As she states in her personal website, she writes “dark romantasies [that] explore monstrosity\u2014perceived and real\u2014and center neurodivergent people of colour reckoning with themselves and their place in the world.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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This Monster of Mine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

New York: Union Square & Co., 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eighteen-year-old Sarai doesn\u2019t know why someone tried to kill her four years ago, but she does know that her case was closed without justice. Hellbent on vengeance, she returns to the scene of the crime as a Petitor, a prosecutor who can magically detect lies, and is assigned to work with Tetrarch Kadra. Ice-cold and perennially sadistic, Kadra is the most vicious of the four judges who rule the land\u2014and the prime suspect in a string of deaths identical to Sarai\u2019s attempted murder.
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Certain of his guilt, Sarai begins a double life: solving cases with Kadra by day and plotting his ruin by night. But Kadra is charming and there\u2019s something alluring about the wrath he wields against the city\u2019s corruption. So when the evidence she finds embroils her in a deadly political battle, Sarai must also fight against her attraction to Kadra\u2014because despite his growing hold on her heart, his voice matches the only memory she has of her assailant\u2026
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A dazzling Ancient Rome-inspired romantasy debut,\u00a0This Monster of Mine<\/em>\u00a0is a bloodbath of manipulation, deception, and forbidden love.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shalini Abeysekara personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shalini Abeysekara is a former corporate lawyer living in Hamilton, Ontario. As she states in her personal website, she writes “dark romantasies [that] explore monstrosity\u2014perceived and real\u2014and center neurodivergent people of colour reckoning with themselves and their place in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20098","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20102,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20098\/revisions\/20102"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}