Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event originally created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we are all eagerly anticipating. Jill has been MIA since August of 2016. Despite this, the meme lives on….Hope you come back Jill! Until then I will be joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can’t-Wait Wednesday.
Happy Wednesday y’all! This week I’m excitedly waiting on Star Daughter by debut author Shveta Thakrar. I love the blurb for this one! I love mythology of all kinds (I don’t care the origin), I wind up looking up the original myths that the stories draw on as I read because I’m curious, and I love how each author spins a new tale from those myths. This particular story is drawing on Hindu mythology, and the blurb says “blends shades of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust” with it. Y’all that is my all-time favorite of Gaiman’s work so I’m all kinds of excited to see what this author brings us.
Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar Published by HarperTEEN on 2020-08-11
Length: 448 pages
This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy.
The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be “normal.” But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star’s help to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago.
Sheetal’s quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family’s champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens—and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all.
Brimming with celestial intrigue, this sparkling YA debut is perfect for fans of Roshani Chokshi and Laini Taylor.
About Shveta Thakrar
Shveta Thakrar is a part-time nagini and full-time believer in magic. Her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies including Enchanted Living, Uncanny Magazine, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings, and Toil & Trouble. Her debut young adult fantasy novel, Star Daughter, is forthcoming from HarperTeen on August 11, 2020. When not spinning stories about spider silk and shadows, magic and marauders, and courageous girls illuminated by dancing rainbow flames, Shveta crafts, devours books, daydreams, travels, bakes, and occasionally even plays her harp.
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Nice pick!! Feel like this artist got a lot of commissions recently as quite a few upcoming books seem to be of the same style! Lol. Hope you love this one once you read it!
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What a beautiful cover! Great pick, hope you can get it soon.
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Oh yes! This sounds wonderful! I hope you love it when you read it!