When the spaceliner Icarus crash-lands on an unknown planet, beautiful heiress Lilac finds herself stuck with solider Tarver--a match neither of them are very happy with. And yet in this foreign landscape, they find they need each other, and together they travel across the land, looking to find other survivors from the crash.
This planet has a few tricks up it's sleeve however. Oddly abandon in the middle of terraformation, the process used to make a planet habitable, Tarver wonders what caused the developing company to dump the money before backing out. Seeing odd visions, Lilac wonders if she's going crazy, even if she doesn't feel like she is.
Miraculously, they find companionship on this planet, along with a secret that would have been better kept hidden.
To be completely honest, I really liked this book. I loved it, even. Until about the last hundred pages that is, and then it got just a little bit far-fetched. And considering this is a science fiction novel, that isn't always the best thing.
The story was the perfect amount of description and fast-pacing, and was extremely well written for having two separate authors. Everything lines up perfectly and the storytelling happens with much of the same writing style that if the front cover hadn't mentioned the two names I wouldn't have guessed the other author. It was the epitome of novels told from two different perspectives, each character having something new and wonderful to offer but their lives tying explicatively together at the same time.
I loved the world that these ladies created. The future that is obsessed with the past, the social classes that have taken a dramatic shift from what we are at today, the poor and the rich galaxies apart. I loved the hope that each of the characters held, the dramatic need that pushed them across this strange planet, and also the beauty of the landscape. The planet, which was made to fit in with all of the rest that had been made, in explicitly branched out in a beautiful and different way that those who had been taught about the importance of order found to love.
And the more I think about it, the more the ending doesn't bother me. Because it did give me the solution I was so wanting. It did answer all of my questions and it wasn't corny at all.
All in all, despite the disappointment I had with the one part, I loved the book and would highly recommend that you read it.
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I loved the world that these ladies created. The future that is obsessed with the past, the social classes that have taken a dramatic shift from what we are at today, the poor and the rich galaxies apart. I loved the hope that each of the characters held, the dramatic need that pushed them across this strange planet, and also the beauty of the landscape. The planet, which was made to fit in with all of the rest that had been made, in explicitly branched out in a beautiful and different way that those who had been taught about the importance of order found to love.
And the more I think about it, the more the ending doesn't bother me. Because it did give me the solution I was so wanting. It did answer all of my questions and it wasn't corny at all.
All in all, despite the disappointment I had with the one part, I loved the book and would highly recommend that you read it.
RATING
MORE INFORMATION
Amie Kaufman's Blog
Meagan Spooner's Blog
Goodreads
Amazon
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