BOOK REVIEW: THE STAR TOUCHED QUEEN BY ROSHNI CHOKSHI
August 22, 2017
The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen #1)
Synopsis: (From Goodreads)
Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Protection. Desire…
But Akaran has its own secrets—thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most…including herself.
But Akaran has its own secrets—thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Yet who, besides her husband, can she trust? With the fate of the human and Otherworldly realms hanging in the balance, Maya must unravel an ancient mystery that spans reincarnated lives to save those she loves the most…including herself.
** The Star Touched Queen is an ensorcelling bewitching piece of unicorn uber shittttt. No kidding. ^^**
✏ I know I'm behaving in quite Aeergia( The only goddess I know about is the one who is famous for being lazy)fashion these days and being a bad friend, but I just had to tell everyone about The Star Touched Queen. Now the writing might be a hit or miss , and fortunately I belong to the category that appreciates this beauty. Normally, I'm not a fan of figurative or metaphorical language. My love for metaphors is all but enhanced by the book that shattered me. TE HEEEE. But Roshani Chokshi penning style is so...Classically poetic that there is a great chance you will be bewitched, befuddled, mesmerized etc etc. Go find the remaining synonyms from a thesaurus. I'm so tired of cramming synonyms at this point.
✏ I have seen a lot of people label the relationship between Amar and Maya as instalovey and you can say I was surprised when a special word reincarnation came into the scene and it all started making sense. That's when all the facepalms at the presumptions I had heard started. You see they have been in love since the dawn of time,they just or just Maya don't remember it yet. It is a sort of a temporary glitch in their hippocampus but their amygdala will step in to work it all out once they meet.*wink* So there is officially no instalove here. Label it as one of those "culturally and historically" accurate things. I hope whatever I said made sense.
✏ I know I'm behaving in quite Aeergia( The only goddess I know about is the one who is famous for being lazy)fashion these days and being a bad friend, but I just had to tell everyone about The Star Touched Queen. Now the writing might be a hit or miss , and fortunately I belong to the category that appreciates this beauty. Normally, I'm not a fan of figurative or metaphorical language. My love for metaphors is all but enhanced by the book that shattered me. TE HEEEE. But Roshani Chokshi penning style is so...Classically poetic that there is a great chance you will be bewitched, befuddled, mesmerized etc etc. Go find the remaining synonyms from a thesaurus. I'm so tired of cramming synonyms at this point.
✏ I have seen a lot of people label the relationship between Amar and Maya as instalovey and you can say I was surprised when a special word reincarnation came into the scene and it all started making sense. That's when all the facepalms at the presumptions I had heard started. You see they have been in love since the dawn of time,they just or just Maya don't remember it yet. It is a sort of a temporary glitch in their hippocampus but their amygdala will step in to work it all out once they meet.*wink* So there is officially no instalove here. Label it as one of those "culturally and historically" accurate things. I hope whatever I said made sense.
I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as familiar as the marrow in my bones. I wanted the impossible, which made it that much easier to push out of my mind.
---I'm a good person and a shitty writer but The Star Touched Queen deserves all the stars in the world. Yes, I'm willing to quote John Green and use a GR cliché. I completed it during the span of 24 hours and then listened to my googoo-eyes playlist for a week. My
✏Now another thing I'm going to mention will probably imply that I'm a bad feminist okay with girl hating. Err women living in polygamist circles are usually bitter and their conniving ways and backbiting nature is not sugarcoated in the book. This happens and they are not getting a free leash owing to some misguided sisterhood and just because I belong to the female species. I don't believe in sexism, male or female.
---Call me shallow but one star in my rating is reserved for the featured boy, if he gets to my BBF list. Amar's eternal love(the dude's name literally means eternal) for Maya is beautiful but we don't get to see a lot of him throughout the story and his personality apart from his love is mysterious. But still, they are a match made inhell heaven or somewhere in between.
---Call me shallow but one star in my rating is reserved for the featured boy, if he gets to my BBF list. Amar's eternal love(the dude's name literally means eternal) for Maya is beautiful but we don't get to see a lot of him throughout the story and his personality apart from his love is mysterious. But still, they are a match made in
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