These Broken Stars

Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner- 384 pages


Loved it! I chose this because the cover was pretty. (I know I can be shallow. But I've learned to accept that fact about myself.) In truth I wasn’t expecting much else from a story that seemed like Titanic in space and had characters named Lilac and Tarver so it was a real surprise that this turned out to be one of my favorites all year (so far).
Reading the story it shifts from a crash story to a survival in the elements with possible traces of a ghost story as they start to wonder pretty quickly if they aren’t being lead across this seemingly deserted planet to some kind of reckoning. But what really sold the story for me was Lilac who had way more to her then the spoiled little rich girl you think you’re going get at the beginning. She really drew on her strength and that became the key to their survival. I liked the fact that she decided it was worth her life, if necessary, for Tarver to live because she didn’t want his family to suffer the loss of another child.

Near the end of the story there’s a devastating shift that once again changed the tone for me. It would be impossible to explain it without giving away any spoilers and for just a moment I wondered if it was going to work out or, even if it did, if the story was about to get so unbelievably sad that I wouldn’t want to finish it. But somehow it does work out I not only stuck with it I couldn’t put it down. There was quite a lot about life and death and love and the things that survive after all those things. I believe this is the beginning of a series and this is one of the rare times when I actually hope it is because I would most definitely keep reading.

Recommend: Absolutely

Bonus: The cover! The green dress, the red hair… I would so make a poster out of this cover.




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Release date: December 23, 2014 No mention in the synopsis of Lilac or  Tarver. These two are called Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac. (I rolled my eyes at Lilac and Tarver anyway.) Hopefully it will be as good as the first one!!!