Book #70 of 2019: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (The Illuminae Files #1) This YA sci-fi adventure gets better as it goes along, and I’m inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt that some of the elements I still don’t like are artifacts of the audiobook format. (It’s an epistolary novel …
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Book #111 of 2018: Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #3) I like how every book in this trilogy focuses on a different pair of starcrossed lovers, but I have to admit that I don’t care much for this last couple. They meet when they both happen to break into the …
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Book #88 of 2018: This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #2) The first novel in the Starbound series took a while to draw me in, but this sequel improves upon its predecessor by offering two new central characters whose starcrossed Romeo and Juliet plot of soldiers on opposite sides of a …
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Book #71 of 2018: These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (Starbound #1) This sci-fi love story ends a lot stronger than it begins, especially after a surprise development around the three-quarter mark. The two main characters are teens from different social classes — a young war hero and a spoiled heiress — …
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