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The Star-Touched Queen

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  • 2016 first published
  • 355 pages
  • 3 editions
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The Star-Touched Queen is a 2016 novel by Roshani Chokshi. Readers will find themes of magic, teenage girls, Reincarnation and arranged marriage.

29 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 3 editions. It appeared on the New York Times Young Adult Hardcover bestseller list in 2016.

At about 355 pages, most readers finish it in 6–7 hours.

About The Star-Touched Queen

Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? 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.
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Awards & lists

  • ✦Locus Awards 2017 — Best First Novel (nominee)
  • 📰New York Times bestseller list — Young Adult Hardcover, 2016

Themes, setting & tropes

Tropes

Subjects

  • Magic
  • Teenage girls
  • Fantasy
  • Reincarnation
  • Arranged marriage
  • Prophecies
  • Fate and fatalism
  • Children's fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Marriage

Quick answers

Who wrote The Star-Touched Queen?

The Star-Touched Queen was written by Roshani Chokshi and first published in 2016.

How long is The Star-Touched Queen?

The median edition has 355 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Star-Touched Queen?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2), The Lost Heir and Cruel Beauty.

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