These Broken Stars Book Review

These Broken Stars (Starbound, #1)

By: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Publication Date: December 10, 2013

Disney Hyperion, 374 pages

Source: Bought it from B&N

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. 

The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.

-Description retrieved from Goodreads

The perfect dream setting is sipping on some English Breakfast Tea with tons of honey and milk because I have a major sweet tooth with a book or typing a post for my book blog with a soft, cozy blanket wrapped around me. There has been killer amounts of snow and book blogging is the perfect thing to do when that happens. 

So These Broken Stars, first let's judge the cover because whether we admit it or not, but covers play a major role when it comes to deciding which book to read. I feel like this book does sort of reflect the plot in the story because the models accurately depict how I imagine the characters will look like. But I like this cover, the simplicity of it especially of the font. I like skinny fonts like crazy, that's just who I am. 

Tarver reminds me of Day from the Legend series for some reason and Lilac reminds me a bit like June, but at the same time not really. But the major comparison is Tarver and Day because they're both survivors and fall for the wrong girl type of thing going on. Or is that just me?

I liked this novel, but didn't love it. It was interesting enough, but it wasn't the addicted-to-it type of book. I will admit, this novel took me quite a while to read, perhaps a week or a week and a half. The first part was interesting and then the first part of the middle was a bit drawn and dull to me. But I did like the part near the end that part definitely sucked me in. So the entire book wasn't a let-down, 

So character time! And you guys know that I am picky as heck when it comes to my characters. Other people are a lot more tolerable and compassionate towards book characters, but I am strict and harsh when it comes to favoring them. Maybe because I can be a bit judgy, but who isn't first of all? So again, Lilac was okay, she wasn't my favorite, but come on, I give her major props for climbing hills in high heels and she did become strong-willed later on. I do like a character who transitions and develops throughout a novel. Traver was also okay, he was a bit judgmental towards Lilac, but I didn't really like him near the end. He was getting too emotional for my liking and I couldn't understand him. But he was an interesting character as well.

For some odd reason, when it comes to survivor stories, I am super curious what they eat like that is one of the main parts that interest me which is really odd. I guess, I'm sincerely fascinated about food, what does that say about me? I thought the end was kind of difficult for me to understand, I had to re-read some parts because my mind was going like 'what?' or blank. 

Overall, it was a decent novel, wasn't really anything special. I don't think I will be reading to the second novel because I don't like sequels with a new pair of characters because it takes me a while to get attached to characters and when I do, I don't like to be forced to let them go. 

One Page at a Time

-Skimmy.