Starbound #1
Published: December 10, 2013
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Authors: Amy Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Pages: 374
Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction
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. Genres: Young Adult, Romance, Science Fiction
Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long 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 tortuous 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.
These Broken Stars started with two of the things I love most in this life - stars and books, both of which were not further developed, although in the begging described as 'the only real thing'.
This was an utterly chaotic book, things randomly thrown into the story all of the time that never underwent any kind of expansion. Nothing tied as much as I would have wanted it to, at places everything was a bit rushed and at times I found myself going back and re-reading certain parts, searching for an explanation which should have been there but never actually was.
All of the theories of the main characters were scattered around, especially Lilac's character who was always holding her own, so stubborn to the point of stupidity.
The writing style was dull in the first part of the book and got even worse towards the end. It wasn't anything spectacular or utterly brilliant or even different from what I've read before. The book was written in chapters, each one written in a different POV, hence the two authors, and I reckon that's a big part of why things were so disorganised which lead me to think that not so much thought was put into it.
Many of the stuff mentioned were left hanging into the air and we never got answers to many of the questions. And you would say: "But you may receive answers in the next part, it's a trilogy after all."
Yeah. But no. There is no Lilac or Tarver in the next part, This Shattered World. Maybe I will read the novella which comes out in October. Maybe.
“You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love.”
I didn't really feel the tragic 'love' (if you can call it love, they only spent 2 weeks together!), which was impossible under any other circumstances and was not convincingly written.
It never turned into a battle for survival, heck there were no battles whatsoever, just two teenagers running around scavenging supplies from their newly crashed spaceship with hundreds of thousands of victims in it.
I am really disappointed after how much this book was hyped about but I agree with one thing - you either love it or you hate it.
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