Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication date: December 2013
Pages: 374
Source: e-book from the library
For: At Suey's suggestion
Series: Starbound, Book 1
Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive – alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a cynical war hero. Both journey across the eerie deserted terrain for help. Everything changes when they uncover the truth.I enjoyed this a LOT more than I expected to. Generally, I've found a lot of YA space books to be kind of lacking in good solid science. Not that this is super good with science (there's a lot of stuff that you kind of have to roll with), but I found that those things didn't bother me. I was intrigued enough by the plot and the characters that I kind of forgot to be bothered. I found the ending to be surprising and I'm wanting to read the next books. Glad I listened to Suey and got my hands on this. I needed a good YA space book that entertained me enough to ignore the bad science :)
Read-alikes:
Reminded me a bit of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking series
BOOK CONTENT RATINGS:
s-factor: !
maybe one or two
mrg-factor: X
some implied stuff
v-factor: ->->
a bit of fighting gore
Overall rating: ****
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Suey's quite the book pusher, isn't she? I have book one and two on my shelf because of her. Now if I could just start them.
ReplyDeleteI was sold, obviously :)
DeleteI LOVED this book! I have sadly been remiss in following the rest of the series, but I did listen to this one twice. I'm so glad you enjoyed it too!
ReplyDeleteIt's a good one! I've yet to read the sequels too.
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