Publication Date: Dec. 10th 2013
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Pages: 384
Series: Starbound #1
(a series of companion novels)
Source: Purchased
Rating:
★★★★★
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.
Then,
against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the
tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of
a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they
be better off staying here forever?
Everything changes when they
uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every
step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be
the same people who landed on it.
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A timeless love
story, THESE BROKEN STARS sets into motion a sweeping science fiction
series of companion novels. The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three
love stories. One enemy.
Publication Date: January 15th 2013
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages: 369
Series: Across the Universe #3
Source: Purchased
Rating:
★★★★★
Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed
behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on
Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles
across the universe to experience.
But this new Earth isn't the
paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like
birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious,
unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first
let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight.
Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if
they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building
a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of
what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because
if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends,
family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing.
FUELED BY LIES.
RULED BY CHAOS.
ALMOST HOME.
Publication Date: January 10th 2012
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages: 386
Series: Across the Universe #2
Source: Purchased
Rating:
★★★★
Godspeed was once fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.
It’s been three months since Amy was unplugged. The
life she always knew is over. Everywhere she looks, she sees the walls
of the spaceship Godspeed.
But there may be hope: Elder
has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act on his
vision—no more Phydus, no more lies.
But when Elder learns shocking news about the ship, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on Godspeed.
They must work together to unlock a mystery that was set in motion
hundreds of years earlier. Their success—or failure—will determine the
fate of the 2,298 passengers aboard Godspeed. But with each
step, the journey becomes more perilous, the ship more chaotic, and the
love between them more impossible to fight.
Beth Revis catapulted readers into the far reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the Universe. In A Million Suns,
Beth deepens the mystery with action, suspense, romance, and deep
philosophical questions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending
conclusion: They have to get off this ship.
Publication Date: January 11th 2011
Publisher: Razorbill
Pages: 398
Series: Across the Universe #1
Source: Purchased
Rating:
★★★★
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.
Seventeen-year-old
Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship
Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in
the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would
come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into
the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy
quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction.
Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to
kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be
next.
Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But
out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder,
the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen
coming.
