This is honestly one of most beautiful covers I've ever seen in my entire life and, even if I wasn't so stoked by the entire premise of this story, you can bet your ass I'd still buy it just to frame this cover like a damn piece of art 😍

This was a really cool debut fantasy! I absolutely adored the world and how it was brimming with Hindu culture. It was super vibrant and whimsical and just came to life. There were a lot of elements I really enjoyed about the story overall. I found the stars to be fascinating, the star hunting aspect, and the competition and how it played out, and how the competition centred around art and the stars as muses. But, the pacing was a bit off for me. It was really slow as most of the book is buildin...

August OwlCrate Unboxing Video is up! Honestly wasn't my favorite box...but some of it was nice. Click the link to check it out! The Written Review She was nothing but the words of a story, one tale weaving imperceptibly into the next. She was the loom that wove the tapestry. She was the tapestry that joined all things. What...an absolute disappointment. Loved the way Sheetal's culture was portrayed in this book - absolutely amazing. BUT the actual plot and Sheetal's overwhelming

Thank you to the publisher for sending me a copy of this book for review. This in no way influences my opinion of the book. This is such a delight of a book! Inspired by Hindu mythology, this is a fantasy centred around a wondrous celestial court full of lavish light and star fire. It's bright, colourful, and full of art, quite literally inspiring the world through its beauty. I loved seeing the appreciation for art in this, and not just your usual types either - puppeteering and embroidery were...

since it seems like most of the pre-reviews for this are basically a support group - hi, my name is jessica and i, too, picked this book up solely because of the gorgeous cover. that being said, i really wish the story inside was just as stunning. dont get me wrong, i liked this. just not as much as i wanted to. and i think it stems from the fact that this story very much feels like a debut novel and there is so much room for growth and development.the inspiration from hindu myth is fascinating,...

OwlCrate's August 2020 Box : My Rep Code: MEL10 ❤️Fairyloot's August 2020 Box: My Rep Code: MELANIE5 ❤️Reviews you should check out: Fanna's, Anandi's, Sara's "She was nothing but the words of a story, one tale weaving imperceptibly into the next. She was the loom that wove the tapestry. She was the tapestry that joined all things." Star Daughter is a beautiful story about a girl who is half human and half star, and she must go to the celestial court to try to save her father after he...

Star Rating: —> 3.5-4 Stars pure magic *RTC*Buddy Read with my Darceyyyyyy 🤍______________You had me at Star and Hindu Mythology! Ah, & Neil Gaiman!Give me some shiny things and a downpour of mythology, and I’m here for it- all the time, every time. A girl likes what she likes. 🤷🏼‍♀️

20 Dec. 2019: I just finished my final read-through, and while there's no book more perfectly designed for giving stars to (✨✨✨✨✨), I believe reviews are for readers, not authors. So I'll leave that up to all of you--but I will say I adore this book and am so, so, so proud of it. It is the magical fairy tale of my heart, my love letter to everyone who yearns for more and has always wished to go shopping at a magical Night Market and wants to find their place in the world(s). I hope if you read i...

This cover makes me want to activate my (tbh terrible) flirting skills. Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.—Siberian proverbEmotional book playlist filled with Hindi songs for this adventurous, cute, and gorgeous YA debut of stars and Hindu mythology → Spotify LINK ✨Review to come but, in the meantime, read the author’s heartfelt note because it fully paints what to expect of Star Daughter:Dear reader,My whole life, I’ve yearned for magic. I grew up steeped...

Meet Sheetal, a teenage girl who is a half-star. Being raised by her father, Sheetal has a normal teenage life with an incredible best friend named Minal and her sweet boyfriend Dev, but the call of the stars is getting stronger every day. Finally, something happens to her father that makes her decide to go to the Starry Court and meet her mother again. There she will have to forcefully take part in a competition in order to save her father's life. First, that cover deserves a gazillion stars. T...

“Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.” This was a cute YA fantasy. A bit too romancy for me - but I enjoyed the magical elements. 3.5 ⭐️ So our main character Sheetal is half star. Her mother left her and her father when she was young in order to return to her world. When Sheetal’s father falls ill she decides to visit her starry family to see if they can help him. I liked the magic, the fantasy parts were lovely and whimsical. I didn’t like the family pol

August Owlcrate! A beautiful sprayed edge edition of the book! Click the link below the picture to see the GOODIES!GOODIES LINK: https://melissa413readsalot.blogspot....AUGUST FAIRYLOOT BOX. Click the link under the picture to see the awesome goodies!GOODIES LINK:https://melissa413readsalot.blogspot.... My mother is a star. I am half earth, half of heavens. Cut me, and I might bleed silver. My skin is a rich brown, the exact shade of my human father’s skin, but my hair is long and thick and fr...

EDIT:I have read this multiple times now and it gets more gorgeous each time. How is that possible? Each time I read it, I find new moments and lines to love. Honestly, it's a gorgeous story about what it means to be human, the brilliance and pain of it, with magic and music and heart, so much heart, and how destinies do not define you, you define your destiny. I JUST REALLY LOVE IT, OKAY? I can't wait to have my physical copy when it comes out next year.I was lucky enough to read an early draft...

Don't get me wrong the blurb of this sounds good, but I'd be 100% lying if I said I didn't add this to my TBR because of the cover.Blog | Twitter

~ 2.5 stars ~I think this book was okay?There was nothing necessarily wrong with it, but I could not connect with anything in it. The characters fell flat, the plot fell flat. Everything was just kind of underwhelming. I also was not a fan of the writing style unfortunately. I had trouble looking past the writing especially. Sometimes the writing style can truly be a make or break for me. But it is always great to see own voices books. This has South Asian representation and it is inspired by Hi...

I couldn't describe to you the excitement I felt when I mashed up my love for that cover with the realization that this was a STARDUST-inspired fantasy set alongside Hindu mythology. Except that I was, y'know, excited. But maybe my expectations were just too high?Right off the bat I struggled a bit with the hyper-focus on Sheetal's preoccupation with her sorta-boyfriend but as things transitioned out of the contemporary, leaving the boy problems behind, and into the fantasy? I was transfixed. Th...

Sees the Indian girl on the cover...Takes the cover pic & goes to look in the mirror...Mrin: Nah..she doesn't look like meMrin's mom: Mrin:*shrugs* I just hope my Mom does not sees this😂But the expression of the lady was ON POINTMrin after seeing the cover...Jokes aside...I am sooooooo excited for this book!!!This is based on the Indian Mythologythe MC is the daughter of a STAR AKA NAKSHATRA...Don't know if it's present in all of IndiaBUT even now we have "NAKSATRA's " assigned to us during our

☆ 4 / 5 ☆The content of this book is even more beautiful than its cover.Star Daughter follows Sheetal, a half-star half-human teenager, as she has to drop her act of normalcy to save her father. All her life she’s had to hide her identity as a half-star but she now has to embrace that side of her. When she arrives at the Celestial Court, she is thrown into a competition as a representative for her family and she learns more than she ever has before about the stars, about their powers but also th...

A young half-star half-mortal woman, a gorgeous setting among the clouds, music that plays on one's heartstrings, emotionally complex familial relationships, inspiration from the nakshatras of Hindu cosmology, and lush narration through a lyrical writing.↣ consider reading this review over on my blog. A young woman is struck to live the part of her she has kept hidden as a secret for so long. Sheetal, the daughter of a a human dad and a star mother, has always pushed down the heavenly part of

2.75 stars While this book was an easy read, I think it will be mostly forgettable for me. The pacing was off at times and I found the book also struggled a bit to land on its themes. The world felt lush at times and under-developed at others. The antagonists felt flat and predictable. I did enjoy the folklore and mythology aspects but overall, this will fade in my memory fairly quickly.