This book just never pulled it together. I felt like there was so much mythology happening in the spaces around me while I was reading that was just never explained. I felt lost through most of that story. And the relationship between Maya and Amar was not convincing. There was too much back-shadowing and not enough development in the present. Their attraction to each other seemed contrived and then the story from Nritti, the anger towards Amar, the betrayal of him that turned out to be a huge mistake -the feeling behind it was all much to shallow. Then, when Maya does "save" Amar, I have no idea how. Like, she gives him back a bracelet of her hair and boom he knows her. Then, she goes to the tapestry and is like, all of a sudden I know what I need to do. And then she separates her thread (???) and suddenly no only remembers everything but has bigger and better magic than ever before? Like, she was mortal, and never went through the transition that Amar planned to turn her back into his queen, so where did all that magic come from? And also, when we do find out the back story of Amar's mistake that made Maya run away, it's cause she was super snooty and after centuries of being with this guy, listened more to her upset sister (who had previously threatened her) instead of him? Like, can we talk about how unrealistic that seems as a reason to run away and become mortal? And lastly, the entire storyline with Gauri in the middle...it has no bearing on anything really. Like, I can see it as a "letting go," but it just wasn't written well enough to be compellingly real, so it just seemed like it was an idea plopped down in the middle to probably set up a second book about a different character's life that didn't fit at all into this book. All in all, it seems like this book was full of good ideas that weren't put together well, nor were they proofread by anyone for cohesiveness or sensical story-telling. I'm left fairly confused about how things concluded (I mean, the ending was clear, good guys get together and bad guys trapped, but how things got there...lots of holes) with a plot and cast that was never really well developed. Not really that impressed.