Samstag, 11. Juli 2015

Review: These Broken Stars and This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner






These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
Series: Starbound (#1)
Released: December 10th, 2013
Pages: 374
Source: Purchased
Rating: 5 / 5

Link: Goodreads






Lilac LaRoux is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. On the flight in the Icarus the first ever hyperspeed Spaceship, which is build by her fathers company, she meets Tarver Merendsen. Tarver is on a promotion tour as one of the youngest Majors and war heros. When the luxury spaceliner Icarus starts shaking and suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet, Lilac and Tarver are the only survivors.
In their search for help they travel a lonley planet. But things change when they find out that there is more on this planet, and what the truth is.

I loved this book! Good stories set in space always intrigue me, because let's be honest here, I always wanted to live on a space station, like Zenon from that long ago Disney movie - has anyone else loved that movie as much as me!? So when I first heard about 'These Broken Star' I knew i need to read this. The whole concept of terraforming planets to make them able to live on is so cool, and the way Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner can paint pictures in my head with their words just hooked me on this series. 
Once again this book is written from two perspectives, but the voices are so different, so I never had an issue with forgetting who is taking right now. Tarver and Lilac are both very strong characters, who are forced to work together to survive, and let me tell you that's a lot of fun to witness. We get to know them very well during their journey, and half way into the book I couldn't put it down anymore because I felt so strongly for those two. 
I would have liked a little bit more space adventure and I really hope we see some more of Tarver and Lilac in book 3 as they just appear shortly in book 2.
And because I already mentioned book 2 now let's jump to that one! 


Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2015

Book Haul June 2015

Hold your horses! Here are all of the books I've got in June:


Purchased:


*already finished The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkoski


 Purchased as audiobook:



*already finished The Lightning Thief & The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

 Can't wait to read them all :D