1.5 Stars. 
 Going in, I had such high hopes for The Star-Touched Queen and at the end I'm entirely disappointed. On paper it has a lot going on for it. It's a fairy tale based in Indian mythology! What's not to like? Everything... well maybe like one thing, and I'll get to that later. 
 Instead of being a Negative Nancy, I'll start this off with what was successful. I enjoyed the world building. There were so many creatures, worlds, and magic and I liked how detailed everything was. However, the detail had a tendency to turn into this saccharine flowery prose. For a fairytale, it worked great. It made it have more magical elements. But as a reader, it made bored me so much that I had to keep re-reading paragraphs because I just couldn't pay attention. I just wanted it to get to the point already! 
 Now, onto what wasn't successful... Our heroine, Maya, was painfully unlikeable. Seriously, I couldn't freaking stand the girl! For a character who believes she's so clever and loves learning, she certainly doesn't seem to learn much. For example, when she gets to Amar's palace she's told that some of the places in the house are dangerous and that there could be voices that will try to trick you. She doesn't listen to this at all. Instead she just starts listening to the voices in the house that tell her all these stupid lies to get her to betray Amar. AND SHE JUST BLINDLY BELIEVES ALL THESE STRANGE VOICES!!! WHAT. IN. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK? She doesn't trust Amar. WHY? The only things he's done for her was, you know, save her life and treat with respect and love. WHAT AN ASSHOLE, RIGHT? She then proceeds to fuck up all of Akaran. Like all of it. Seriously. I couldn't stand the girl. The icing on top of the whole debacle is that I finished the book and realized that I still don't really know Maya's personality. I only know her idiotic actions. SHE WAS AWFUL AND UNDERDEVELOPED! However, Maya did give us this one zinger... 
 "I'd rather spread ideas than legs," I hissed back. "But I doubt you would agree-" 
 I know the second book in this series will be about Gauri. Now Gauri was only really in the book for a couple of chapters but I was already in love with her character. If this book had been about Gauri I may have been writing a much different review right now. I was so much more interested in a side character's plot than I was for our "heroine." Sadly, I was so disappointed in The Star-Touched Queen that I probably won't bother to pick up the sequel. 
 Now the one thing in the book that was actually pretty good. Kamala! She's a demon horse who eats people and has a sarcastic attitude. Her solution to very obstacle is "So.... Should I eat them?" HAHA! She was so funny and a great sidekick. I wish Kamala was in the whole story. She could have saved me from my boredom.