By Amie Kauffman & Meagan Spooner
Series: Starbound #1
Genre: YA, Fantasy/Sci-fi,
RomancePublisher: Disney Hyperion
Goodreads Summary:
It’s
a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the
massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the
nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be
alone.
Lilac
is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing,
a young war hero who learned a long time ago that girls like Lilac are more
trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and
Tarver must work together, making a torturous journey across the eerie,
deserted terrain to seek help.
Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder – would they be better off staying here forever?
Everything
changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt
their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they
won’t be the same people who landed on it.
Links:
These
Broken Stars on Goodreads, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble
Amie
Kauffman’s WebsiteMeagan Spooner’s Website
TheTraveling Green Dress
The place the dress went was a quick visit to Marie Lu...and frosty.
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The place the dress went was a quick visit to Marie Lu...and frosty.
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My Thoughts:
I received this book from the publisher
in exchange for an honest review.
This gorgeous cover and the description really sucked me in way before the book was released. I have also chatted with the authors a little on twitter and they are both beyond sweet…and they call me zombie girl which I love :-P. I also think it’s great that they sent the infamous green dress traveling to various authors which resulted in some entertaining blog posts (link listed above).
I
think that because I loved the cover, description, and authors very early on I
had very high expectations for These Broken Stars. Sadly, I have to admit that
I was a teensy bit let down. It was still a good read but it just wasn’t quite to the level that I was expecting.
One
of the main characters was frustrating as all get out in the first half of the
book but thank friggin’ goodness that character (and another) grew as the story
progressed. That along with a more active storyline in the second half of the
book helped bump up my rating but even then I still wasn’t driven to that point
of obsessed reading that would drive me to fit in reading any and every
possible second.
I plan
to continue the series because I think that like the characters in their books,
Amie and Meagan will grow and I look forward to seeing where they go from here.
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 5
