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Star Daughter was one of my most anticipated books of the year. This contemporary fantasy based on Hindu mythology is filled with lush prose and rich magic with a well woven plot and characters, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed.


Sheetal is the daughter of a human dad and a star mother. Her mother has left them and now she is living with her father and is forced to hide down her silver hair by dying them. The ‘starsong’ flows through her but she is forced to ignore that. But when she can’t help herself staying away from the truth of being a star daughter, she does something that unintentionally harms her father and now she had to turn to the clouds to help him and to seek the answers to her questions.

I was happy to see how flawed and realistic Sheetal’s character was. I can relate to the decisions she made out of desperation. When she made new discoveries and get to know hidden secrets, her character justifies her uncertainty.

I loved the setting and it was probably my favorite thing of this book. It is beautiful and magical. The description of Svarglok is so realistic and I felt as if I am watching an old Hindi mythological TV serial