Series: Starbound (#1)Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, SciFi, Romance
Published: December 10, 2013 by Disney Hyperion
Purchase: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
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 finished this book in December of 2014, and I have to say, I loved it. I love Sci-Fi overall, and this one didn't do much damage to my love. A lot of people recognize this book as "Titanic in Space", and it is true, because, I mean, the richest girl and a poor soldier? Yep. Titanic. It's your normal romance book, so you can guess what happens to them in the end, but I jumped into this book for the survival, and the space, and if whether or not, they get rescued from the planet they crashed on.
This was written nicely. I would skim through some parts...but realize that I did skim through the pages because I didn't understand what was happening, and I had to rewind back a few pages, and read through it...and that was...not fun, I'll tell you that.
There were, however, very few characters, and that was a fifty percent on both my dislike and my like scale. Because, reading the same two characters for like 90% of the book is kind-of boring, you know? At least, there was no love triangle(wanted to point that out), but it was also nice, because we were able to get to know them better, especially when the book is written in both of their point of views. One of my favorite parts in the book was the pages in between the chapters, because they were sarcastic and funny to read. It kind-of spoiled it, because you can obviously tell that it's a questioning session with 'someone' and our soldier, Tarver. And you know what happens when you know it's a questioning session with Tarver? It means he survived. Yep.
The suspense scenes were real suspense scenes. It's so scary that it has you on the edge of your seat. You don't know what would happen next, and seriously, this is a wrong thing to do, but I flipped a few pages ahead to see what would happen. I mean, I can't handle the mystery, alright? The world building was alright. I couldn't really imagine much scenes, and we don't really know where they are actually at because they didn't describe the places. The aliens. Let's talk about them. To be honest, I didn't even know they were 'aliens', because the characters, Lilac and Tarver just had to make up stupid name like "The Whispers". Like, dude. For real?
Reading this was so weird, because everything was practically fake. Lilac didn't even know what rain was, and I was like, "Oh right. Everything is fake in Lilac's world." It was just so weird, but I liked it, but it did leave me dumbfounded, because I mean, rain? Water falling from the sky is...just..normal. Lol.
I read this book, thinking it was a standalone, but I found out it wasn't. Well, Nice job.
