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3.5 Stars. I wanted to give it a solid four, but some of the things that put this book more in the camp of YA than New Adult, really took it down a half star for me.

To the good: very exciting and fast-paced! Well written sense of place, you really get lost in these grimy boat machine rooms and the developing romance of our two seemingly different leads. I never lost interest in this one and the surprise near the end was nicely done.

This really alternated between leaning towards YA one minute and New Adult another. I really liked the personality clash between the two mains in the beginning. It was unique and refreshing, honestly. Having said that, some of the inner angst was a tad overdone and really the sort of *Spoiler* flowery description of love at the end by Doran to Lara. It might be what a woman wants to hear but to me it doesn't read as what a guy would actually say. You can tell a woman wrote it. It just doesn't ring true. I still enjoyed the love story but having to read the same loving descriptions that sound scripted...is driving me nuts.

Overall though, I really enjoyed it!! Fast-paced read which was exactly what I wanted! It felt good to be actively engaged in a book this year! My first time being this year jonesing to read. I'd say worth it.


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Starflight Melissa Landers Books Reviews

I expected a love-hate romance with some science fiction. I got more than that!

Solars is a criminal with her crimes literally on her skin. She gets a job offer on the fringe, a place between colonized and thriving and just colonized. She agrees to act as servant to her school bully who does his best to keep up the bullying.

When an act of desperation forces her to flee with her kidnapped bully, she finds herself among a questionable crew. With an at-once kind and fearsome and very old captain, a kleptomaniac for a first mate, a contentious dreadlocked pair with some serious baggage, they find trouble at every turn.

I would eat my hat if the author tried to claim Firefly didn’t at least inspire the universe.

There are pirate crews, black market dealings, a ship with a very unique way about it, daeva which are basically cybernetic reavers, a ragtag crew who take passengers and do some less than legal trading, an oppressive government, it’s easy to see the similarities.
When Doran and Solara are forced to become allies due to unforeseen circumstances, they team up with a rag tag crew of people, all of whom are running from their own pasts. Add in a clunker of a ship, and you basically have the book version of Firefly. To be entirely honest, I didn’t expect much from Starflight. I assumed that the romance would be completely cliche – you know the one I mean, guy is only mean to girl because he secretly has a thing for her, their circumstances force her to see the good in him, and then BAM – they’re in love. Fortunately, Solara and Doran’s romance was much more fun than that. Their hate at the beginning of the book is completely genuine. Doran is a spoiled, pompous jerk and Solara is reluctant to trust him and completely unwilling to like him. Over the course of the book they faced space pirates, humans who have been chemically lobotomized and love to cause pain, and deceitful, manipulative parents. The constant strife they faced bonded them in a very organic way that was a blast to read about.

The secondary characters and their interactions really made this book for me. I adored the rest of the crew and am ecstatic to start the next book in the series, Starfall, which features Cassy and Kane. Landers’s knack for writing witty one-liners caused me to burst out laughing like a lunatic on more than one occasion.

The one thing that kept me from rating Starflight 5 stars was the lack of suspense in the book. Although I never knew what would happen next, I also never doubted that the main characters would escape the precarious situations they were in. I didn’t experience the stomach dropping dread that comes from worrying about the lives of favorite characters. That being said, the means by which Doran and Solara escaped various situations were always clever and certainly made for an entertaining read.
It warms my heart to know this book one because I need more books from this world in my life. I know I am not the first to compare this book to Overboard but that is how it starts out. Solara is looking to escape into the outer planets for anonymity and a chance at a new life. She runs into an old high school nemesis Doran. Doran is spoiled, arrogant and makes Solara's life a living hell when she agrees to work for him in exchange for passage. Doran is going to kick Solara off the passage ship and she has to do something. She drugs Doran, he loses his memories and she convinces him to join her on a run down ship named the Banshee headed to the outer realms. From this point in the story it becomes Overboard meets episodes of Farscape or Firefly. There are space pirates, run in with the law and on planet shenanigans. I enjoyed Starflight because it is very cute, very romantic, and chalked full of action and adventure. I loved the way Solara and Doran become a part of something bigger and along the way discover there is a whole lot more to this world than meets the eye.
3.5 Stars. I wanted to give it a solid four, but some of the things that put this book more in the camp of YA than New Adult, really took it down a half star for me.

To the good very exciting and fast-paced! Well written sense of place, you really get lost in these grimy boat machine rooms and the developing romance of our two seemingly different leads. I never lost interest in this one and the surprise near the end was nicely done.

This really alternated between leaning towards YA one minute and New Adult another. I really liked the personality clash between the two mains in the beginning. It was unique and refreshing, honestly. Having said that, some of the inner angst was a tad overdone and really the sort of *Spoiler* flowery description of love at the end by Doran to Lara. It might be what a woman wants to hear but to me it doesn't read as what a guy would actually say. You can tell a woman wrote it. It just doesn't ring true. I still enjoyed the love story but having to read the same loving descriptions that sound scripted...is driving me nuts.

Overall though, I really enjoyed it!! Fast-paced read which was exactly what I wanted! It felt good to be actively engaged in a book this year! My first time being this year jonesing to read. I'd say worth it.