Review by Erin: These Broken Stars

These Broken Stars                                       Rating: 4.5 / 5

By Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Published: December 10, 2013
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy

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.

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.

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This book starts off on board the spaceliner Icarus and you immediately meet Tarver, a solider, and Lilac, daughter of the richest and most powerful man in the universe. -We get both of their POVs throughout the book- Their first meeting is great and I wish it lasted longer. Something goes wrong with the Icarus and Tarver and Lilac are stranded on a planet alone and have to survive and figure out how to get home, while exploring the mysteries on the strange planet

*Spoilers Section*

Tarver and Lilac are the only survivors of the fall of Icarus and they are waiting for rescue. At first Tarver and Lilac seem to be stepping around each other and being standoff-ish, but we all know they like each other.
 
With only a small pack and a canteen they trek across the plant to the crash site of Icarus to see if there are any survivors and salvageable supplies.
While on this trek they grow closer but they both know they are not suppose to be together, do to their social statuses. Strange things start to happen that are unexplainable and they are growing weary.    -Not going into to much detail-

Once at Icarus they go to explore and Tarver gets hurt, his wound gets infected and in his sickness, due to the infection, Lilac is left alone to scour the ship and look for supplies and something to help Tarver.
In this time she is alone she grows stronger and more independent. This is very critical to her character development. She was once a girl who had everything and knew little of life on planets, must less how to survive alone stranded on one.

After Tarver is well enough to travel they leave the Icarus, knowing help is not likely to come. They find a building in the woods and they find something major and ground breaking.
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-Thoughts-

I'm not going to continue  because I WILL NOT give away an end to any book, that's mean HAHA In my opinion i thought this book was great. The writing style just flows and the character development was phenomenal. You see the characters change and you feel for them and love them as they grow and change together.

One thing that made me not like this book was that most of the beginning was them walking. Walking across this planet and arguing with each other. But as I got to the end I realized that the walking and arguing was necessary to their development. I saw that the longer they were there they walks they had built around themselves fell and they opened up and finally showed how they felt toward each other.

This book made me cry and threw me for a loop. By the second half you are sitting on the edge of your seat trying to figure this book out. You are just as confused as Tarver and Lilac, not just confused but you are heartbroken and at one point I didn't think I could continue. I thought, "You cant finish the book now, how can you end it now that this happened?"

Okay for one second can we talk about the cover... This cover is gorgeous and I cant stop looking at it. That is one of the reason I picked it up in the store. The cover caught my eye and I couldn't put it down. This Cover and the book it self reminds me of  Across The Universe by Beth Revis

Anyone who likes the Across the Universe series, The Host, or Space travel books and aliens will love this books and the series.

In the end I loved this book, even if it did not live up to my initial thought coming in. I give is a 4.5 out of 5 star rating. I cant wait for the next book in the series This Shattered World.

-Erin