I’m sorry for that title. The pun was just there and I had no choice.
Overall: 5/5 Stars
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Plot and Themes: 5/5
Awesomeness Factor: 4/5
Review in a Nutshell: These Broken Stars was the first Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner book I ever read, and it made me fall in love with this author duo. It’s funny, adorable, heartbreaking, and slightly ominous- basically everything you could ask for in a book.
“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”
[Related: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Review)]
// Content Warning: Violence, Death, PTSD //
“You don’t mention death when it’s hovering near someone you love. You don’t want to attract the reaper’s attention.”
Release Date: 12/10/2013
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Page Count: 384
Premise:
These Broken Stars is what you would get if you put Titanic in space (except, with a lot more Man vs. Wild in there too). Lilac La LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen are from two different worlds. Lilac has lived in luxury her whole life, as the daughter of the richest man in the galaxy. Meanwhile, Tarver is a soldier who came from nothing. But their two worlds collide on the Icarus, a luxury space-liner. However, the Icarus itself then collides with a planet in the middle of nowhere. Lilac and Tarver are lucky to survive the crash, but can they stay alive on this mysterious planet?
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