These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Title: These Broken Stars

Author: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Type: Young Adult Novel
Genre: Fantasy

Series: Yes, Starbound #1

Pages: 374
Copyright: 2013
Publisher: Hyprion
Rating: 4 out of 5


Summary: from Good Reads

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

Feelings: 
I have been seeing the cover of this book around for a while. I have to admit that I liked the cover and that was part of the reason I picked it up to read.The title of the book was also intriguing. This book had huge promotion based on the cover, which I admit is really pretty so it was hard to miss.

For some reason this has been classed as science fiction but I don't agree with that completely. The technology isn't a big enough part of the story to make this feel like science fiction to me. It felt a lot more like fantasy and romance to me. From the description I knew that was what it would be like so I wasn't surprised by the lack of science fiction feel.

About the story let me say that I thought the writing in this was better than a lot of other young adult that I have been reading. It does have a Titanic of space feeling to it but I think it was a good enough story that it didn't feel like it was stuck there. Also that was only a very small part of the story and from there we moved into the survival on a strange planet.

I would recommend the book but I know this isn't a story everyone will like. I think that even in the young adult fantasy/science fiction crowd it will have a specific group that like it. I'm not sure I can say who it will be though.