Author: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Published: 1 Dec 2015
Series: Starbound #3
Rating: 5 stars
Synopsis:
A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were rescued from a terrible shipwreck—now, they live a public life in front of the cameras, and a secret life away from the world’s gaze.
Now, in the center of the universe on the planet of Corinth, all four are about to collide with two new players, who will bring the fight against LaRoux Industries to a head. Gideon Marchant is an eighteen-year-old computer hacker—a whiz kid and an urban warrior. He’ll climb, abseil and worm his way past the best security measures to pull off onsite hacks that others don’t dare touch.
Sofia Quinn has a killer smile, and by the time you’re done noticing it, she’s got you offering up your wallet, your car, and anything else she desires. She holds LaRoux Industries responsible for the mysterious death of her father and is out for revenge at any cost.
When a LaRoux Industries security breach interrupts Gideon and Sofia’s separate attempts to infiltrate their headquarters, they’re forced to work together to escape. Each of them has their own reason for wanting to take down LaRoux Industries, and neither trusts the other. But working together might be the best chance they have to expose the secrets LRI is so desperate to hide.
I listened to this as an audiobook and followed along in my physical book. In the physical book, the words of the whispers are sometimes on opposite sides of the one page as if it was two of them speaking and you can see the whispers and Lilac have a conversation. But in the audiobook, the whispers' voices are quite creepy along with the background sounds of it, and at the end you get to hear the Butterfly Waltz.
"I probably could have stripped naked and laid down on his desk and he would've just moved his monitor so he could see over me."
The cover of this book is beautiful too. I absolutely love her dress on the front cover of this. And if you look closely on the front cover, you can see he has a tattoo just above his elbow.
The interaction between Sofia and Gideon was quite good. I like how their partnership changed as the book went on too - from enemies, to co-conspirators, back to enemies, before reaching friendship and (hopefully one day) a relationship.
Six lives, six threads. We shall see what fabric they weave.
Spoilers!
My guess that Sofia was Towers was sightly off, but I think I'd still call that a win.
I cried when the Daedalus ship crashed to Corinth and Tarver was crying as it fell with Lilac on board - in denial of what was happening in front of him.
Her hands slide up inside my T-shirt, finding skin, and my brain starts to shut down higher function so I can concentrate on getting her shirt off without breaking the kiss for more than a couple of seconds.
When Lilac tells Tarver that she held on so that she could come back to him I also ended up crying. I can be such a sap when it comes to books sometimes.
Another moment I started to cry? When Sofia was with Gideon at the end and she was thinking about what story she should tell the Collective and she thinks about the Butterfly Waltz.
Gideon: I still like yours better. The one with the lights and fringe.
Sofia: The one that got shredded and full of holes because I was wearing it during a spaceship crash? I think there's more dress missing than there.
Gideon: Why do you think I like it?
End Spoilers!
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All books in this series:
1 | These Broken Stars
1.5 | This Night So Dark
2 | This Shattered World
3 | Their Fractured Light
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