"For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives,
reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then
it's gone."
Rating: 4
stars
Initial
Thoughts: Different
Read:
February 28, 2015
About
A luxury spaceliner
suddenly plummets from hyperspace and crashes into the nearest planet. Only two
survive, Lilac, a society girl, the daughter of the richest man in the universe and Tarver, a
war hero. Lilac anticipates immediate rescue, while Tarver just wants to survive.
Unfortunately for them, they have landed on a deserted planet with a mystery of
its own.
Review
This book
was essentially a romance in space, with a little bit of sci-fi thrown in for
good measure and I loved it.
This story
is told in duo point-of-view, which really helped me as the reader to connect
with the characters. It is these characters and the character growth that
occurs throughout the book which made this book stand out from the other YA
dystopia/fantasy that I have been reading lately. The interactions between
these two and their reactions to their situation and surroundings was
incredibly realistic. This was refreshing when it seems that in ½ of all YA
books the female protagonist is secretly a sharp shooter and have unknown survival skills.
The
characters are so entrenched in their views (aka. frustratingly stubborn) that their
relationship builds gradually, as they rely on each other to survive.
The go from being outright hostile to one another, to trusting each other and eventually romance blossoms (this is a YA folks).
I am interested
in reading more from the authors as they have set up an interesting Universe
with an interesting history. I know that the next book in the series does not
focus on the same characters, but I still want to see where the authors are
going to take this series.