These Broken Stars: A Starbound Novel (The Starbound Trilogy, 1, Band 1)
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Für mein erstes Sci-Fi Buch war ich sehr überrascht, dass es mir so gut gefällt. Ich war von Anfang an total investiert in die Geschichte. Ich liebe die langsame Entwicklung der Beziehung der beiden. Das es diesmal mal andersrum war als in anderen Büchern: ,,he fell first but she fell harder” hat mir besonders gut gefallen. Die beiden Schrifstellerinnen wissen wie man eine Liebesgeschichte schreibt. Ich habe gelacht, vor Freunde gekichert und geweint. Ein tolles Buch!
the second half of the book was so disappointing
Titanic triff auf Lost im Weltall - 3.75⭐️
Während des Buddy Reads zu „Aurora Erwacht“, war meine Lust auf mehr SciFi Büchern erwacht. Da „These Broken Stars“ einer meiner längts vergessenen SuB Leichen war und es u.a. von Amie Kaufmann geschrieben wurde, die einer der beiden Autoren von „Aurora Erwacht“ war, kam mir die Idee, dem Buch endlich eine Chance zu geben und somit einer Leiche weniger im Regal zu haben. „These Broken Stars“ ist einige Jahre vor Aurora erschienen, weswegen ich versucht habe, meine Erwartungen nicht aufgrund der grandiosen Geschichte rund um Aurora zu hoch zu legen. Auch wenn es nicht leicht war. Im Großen und Ganzen bietet „These Broken Stars“ auch eine interessante Grundidee, konnte mich aber leider nicht gänzlich überzeugen. Darum geht es: Es ist nur eine flüchtige Begegnung, doch dieser Moment auf dem größten und luxuriösesten Raumschiff, das die Menschheit je gesehen hat, wird ihr Leben für immer verändern. Lilac ist das reichste Mädchen des Universums, Tarver ein gefeierter Kriegsheld aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Nichts könnte die Kluft zwischen ihnen überbrücken - außer dem Schiffbruch der angeblich so sicheren Icarus. Als das Unfassbare geschieht, müssen Lilac und Tarver auf einem fremden Planeten ums Überleben ringen. Zu zweit gegen die Unendlichkeit des Alls ... Handlung: Der Anfang des Buches hat mir persönlich sehr gut gefallen. Die Ereignisse auf dem Ikarus gaben mir einen leichten Titanic Vibe. Ein Raumschiff, auf dem die Reichen feiern. Zwei junge Menschen, aus unterschiedlichen Schichten, die die gegenseitige Aufmerksamkeit erlangen und ein Absturz. Bis zu dem Absturz und auch einige Zeit danach, gefiel mir die Handlung sehr geht. Sie hatte eine mäßige Spannung und konnte mein Interesse noch sehr gut halten. Leider ändert sich das im Laufe der Geschichte. Ein großer Teil der Handlung beinhaltet das Überleben von Traver und Lilac. Die beiden erkunden den Planeten und versuchen mit ihren begrenzten Ressourcen so lange zu überleben, bis Hilfe kommt. Dies nimmt einen sehr großen Teil der Geschichte ein und ich muss sagen, dass es sich manchmal deswegen auch sehr gezogen hat. Generell dauert es recht lange, bis wirkliche Spannung aufkommt. Durch seltsame Vorkommnisse auf dem Planeten und dem Drang danach zu wissen, was dort los ist, möchte man zwar weiterlesen, aber zwischen dem ganzen Wandern hätte ab und an auch ruhig etwas mehr passieren können. Das wohl größte Manko des Buches ist das nicht vorhandene Wordbuilding und ich hoffe sehr, dass dazu mehr in den anderen Bänden kommen wird. Weder die technologischen Mittel noch die Vergangenheit geschweige denn die Gegenwart wird genauer erklärt. Die Gesellschaft dort ist nach Schichten unterteilt, doch auch hier fehlt es nach einer Erklärung für den Grund. Ich habe absolut kein Problem damit, wenn man mehr oder minder in eine neue Welt hineingeworfen wird, aber ein paar kleine Häppchen mit Erklärungen hätte ich mir dann doch gewünscht. Generell muss ich auch sagen, dass man das Weltraum Thema hätte auch fast komplett weglassen können. Es hätte auch genauso gut auf der Erde spielen können. Figuren: Meine Begeisterung zu den Charakteren hielt sich Anfangs eher in Grenzen, besonders wenn es um Lilac ging. Sie ist die klassische wohlbehütete Prinzessin, die ihre Attitude trotzt der Geschehnisse nicht abwerfen kann. Und auch wenn ihr Verhalten zum Teil ein Schutzmechanismus war, ging sie mir auf meinen verbleibenden Eierstock und ich hatte großes Mitleid mit Traver. Ihre phasenweise Sturheit führt auch dazu, dass sie sich selbst schadet. Im Laufe der Geschichte bessert sich jedoch ihr Charakter, sie gewinnt an Stärke und Einsicht und man versteht langsam, warum sie so gehandelt hat. Tarver hingegen mochte ich sehr gerne. Er ist der klassische Goodguy und nimmt seine Tätigkeit als Soldat sehr ernst. Eine Sache die mich an ihm jedoch gestört hat: bei nahezu jeder Gegelgenheit schwärmt er von Lilac und ihrer Schönheit und das bessert sich auch nicht, mit dem Fortschreiten der Geschichte. Romanze: Die Romanze an sich war sehr schöngeschrieben. Es war schön mit anzusehen, wie die beiden nach den anfänglichen Problemen sich langsam tolerieren, eine freundschaftliche Beziehung aufbauen und sich die Gefühle nach und nach verstärken Fazit: Zusammenfassend kann ich sagen, dass es sich hierbei um eine sehr schön geschriebenen YA Paranamol/SciFi Romance Roman handelt. Da ich gerne wissen möchte, was genau es mit dem Planeten auf sich hatte und inwiefern die Geschehnisse noch Auswirkungen haben, werde ich mir definitiv die anderen Bände anschauen.
In der Mitte hat es sich etwas gezogen, aber am Ende wurde es nochmal so richtig spannend.
This book caught me by surprise by grabbing my attention completely with just a few lines. The story seems intriguing right off the bat, the world so different. We are first introduced to Major Tarver Merendsen who comes from a poor family but rose quickly through the ranks and is now a war hero. As is to be expected he is ill at ease among the high-end society. But after a small incident pertaining to her, Tarver meets Lilac LaRoux, a Princess and very important person in their society, but he can't remember who she is. But the way she looks and talks and everything about her makes him be done for, he is already smitten with her. And it's quite adorable! But her father is a powerful enough man to make any man (especially) disappear if they talk or look at his daughter the wrong way; and so, as much as it pains her, Lilac had to break this poor man, for his own good. For some reason, the Icarus, the ship they're on, is pulled, violently, from hyperspace and panic ensues on the ship as fifty thousand people scramble for the podships. And you know two characters are meant to be together when they find each other by chance in this chaos. And with the rush of people around them, Lilac falls over the railing but manages to catch it a couple of flights down and Tarver is pulling her up. Still, after a small argument Lilac takes them to the mechanics' podship and, against her efforts, Tarver gets inside with her. When the escape pod fails to detach from Icarus, Lilac saves them by the skin of their teeth. And soon they are tumbling into a planet, pulled by its gravity. Lilac's and Tarver's situation is very complicated, they can't send a signal for rescue, the Icarus has crash-landed behind a mountain range and their animosity is not helping. Lilac is not used to walking so much and in the kind of shoes she's wearing soon she's able to walk at all. Tarver is doing his best to get them to the Icarus, because that's a place where they can definitely get a rescue, but Lilac isn't helping and neither is he. They are constantly antagonizing each other. As time goes by and Lilac starts having some problems with voices that are not there the dynamic between her and Tarver shifts. Even if Tarver doesn't complain and does what he has to to calm her down. And I really like how their relationship progresses, the stress and strain of the situation easing with a better and easier companionship. And Tarver very much likes Lilac, from the beginning. Lilac graduates from hearing things she can't understand to seeing people. She thinks she's being haunted and that gives her some sense of peacefulness because it means she's not going crazy. She reacts better to being haunted than insane. But Tarver does not. He's terrified that she's seeing things, namely the people from the crashed pod he buried and whom she did not see. So he lies to her when she describes them perfectly. But when they are taking shelter inside a mountain and she wakes up suddenly telling him that they have to leave because something will happen and he doesn't believe her, she runs, forcing Tarver after her. Just as the mountain comes crashing down on their shelter. Obviously, Tarver is just this side of terrified, not knowing what to say or do, unable to tell her she was right and that she was not crazy. But Lilac seems to be holding one quite well! For what she is described to be (by herself and Tarver) she's holding on wonderfully, and these are Tarver's thoughts too. They are at almost to the Icarus's wreck when the same visions that affect Lilac hit Tarver and he was really out of sorts, fearing what he saw. Lilac has an explanation for that: the colonists left the planet they are stranded on because the creatures that live there made them, in some way. The whispers Lilac hears have helped them more than once but Tarver is still apprehensive as to what their intentions are. I didn't think they werebad, I thought they wanted kind of the same thing as the man who approached her in the beginning: help. And I'm glad that I was right, because even thought the intentions of these creatures were selfish (they wanted Tarver and Lilac to save them so they helped them reach them), they were also harmless. At the Icarus, Tarver cuts his hand and falls really ill so Lilac has to search the ship as much as she can for the sick bay. In her search she falls down a level to where most of the bodies are and freaks out. She almost doesn't go back inside but the flower that Tarver gave her and that she was forced to leave behind because it was destroyed, appears on the ground before her (just like the canteen before, when they really needed water). And that is enough to give her the strength to keep her searching. And it's in this part, where she has to do things alone, that it is glaringly obvious how much she's changed. The two of them don't talk, don't express their true feelings and I want to hit them both! You like each other, dumbasses! Just admit it and it all will be better. Lilac wouldn't feel humiliated when she kissed Tarver and he pulled away; and he would be able to tell her that he doesn't want to get his hopes up about them only to lose her after their rescue, that he's afraid that she only wants him because there are no other options, that she's confusing relief with something else. Gods above, just talk to each other. When they finally talk to each other, Lilac has a terrible story to tell: her first boyfriend was sent to the front lines, untrained, and died, all because her father knew of their relationship and she blames herself. Still, Tarver tells her his truth as she told him hers and they are finally together. But that time is short. Since they can't find a way into the building the whispers showed them, Lilac remembers to blow it up. She sets is all up, because she's done it before. But things go horribly wrong when it explodes too soon and Lilac is injured. She has a piece of metal on her gut and it kills her. Kills her. And I was left feeling a void inside my chest again, wondering how in the ever loving Hel we got here. Why she had to die... It hurt and I was shocked. I was not expecting this... It was such a sweet, soft book up until this moment that maybe I should have seen it coming... He is shocked beyond belief, thinking about following her, giving up, unable to process things and move forward. That only makes everything worse. Somehow, someway, Lilac is back. And it's not a vision. The whispers brought her back, for a reason, to save them. Because they needed her and Traver and without her, he wouldn't do anything. But she's different, sensations too much for her, feeling kind of detached from herself. Together the two of them find the place where the whispers come from, light-based creatures with spectacular power. In an effort to save Lilac Tarver pushes her into the rift to the energy that brought her back. And it is just the solution he needed. The whispers wanted both of them alive, wanted their help to go back. And it all is resolved. But Lilac now knows that her father is not the man she thought he was and there a rift between them. She even threatens him of anything happens to Tarver! Threatens to expose him and what she saw on that planet, even when her father orders it blown to smithereens. This book drove me crazy with the need and want to read it! Was constantly on my mind. It was spectacular, more than I thought it would be! The characters are amazing, the setting, the plot! All marvellous! The plot keeps you wondering, keeps you tethered to the story. The characters are involving, lovely. And the writing is amazing, fast-paced. I loved this book!
This book had a great first part, a boring middle part and an illogical last part.
4.5 Sterne von mir! Am Anfang noch etwas schwach, dann aber total genial!:)
Dafür gibt es keine ausführliche Rezension. Das ist nur eine sehr zähe Lovestory im All...
Gosh what a read!!! if you haven't read these broken stars yet, I highly recommend you do because oh my god, this book ... literally killed me with its awesomeness!
I did enjoy it but the ending was kinda confusing and I am not sure if I like the direction this series is heading... 3,5/5
Beschreibung
Beiträge
Für mein erstes Sci-Fi Buch war ich sehr überrascht, dass es mir so gut gefällt. Ich war von Anfang an total investiert in die Geschichte. Ich liebe die langsame Entwicklung der Beziehung der beiden. Das es diesmal mal andersrum war als in anderen Büchern: ,,he fell first but she fell harder” hat mir besonders gut gefallen. Die beiden Schrifstellerinnen wissen wie man eine Liebesgeschichte schreibt. Ich habe gelacht, vor Freunde gekichert und geweint. Ein tolles Buch!
the second half of the book was so disappointing
Titanic triff auf Lost im Weltall - 3.75⭐️
Während des Buddy Reads zu „Aurora Erwacht“, war meine Lust auf mehr SciFi Büchern erwacht. Da „These Broken Stars“ einer meiner längts vergessenen SuB Leichen war und es u.a. von Amie Kaufmann geschrieben wurde, die einer der beiden Autoren von „Aurora Erwacht“ war, kam mir die Idee, dem Buch endlich eine Chance zu geben und somit einer Leiche weniger im Regal zu haben. „These Broken Stars“ ist einige Jahre vor Aurora erschienen, weswegen ich versucht habe, meine Erwartungen nicht aufgrund der grandiosen Geschichte rund um Aurora zu hoch zu legen. Auch wenn es nicht leicht war. Im Großen und Ganzen bietet „These Broken Stars“ auch eine interessante Grundidee, konnte mich aber leider nicht gänzlich überzeugen. Darum geht es: Es ist nur eine flüchtige Begegnung, doch dieser Moment auf dem größten und luxuriösesten Raumschiff, das die Menschheit je gesehen hat, wird ihr Leben für immer verändern. Lilac ist das reichste Mädchen des Universums, Tarver ein gefeierter Kriegsheld aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Nichts könnte die Kluft zwischen ihnen überbrücken - außer dem Schiffbruch der angeblich so sicheren Icarus. Als das Unfassbare geschieht, müssen Lilac und Tarver auf einem fremden Planeten ums Überleben ringen. Zu zweit gegen die Unendlichkeit des Alls ... Handlung: Der Anfang des Buches hat mir persönlich sehr gut gefallen. Die Ereignisse auf dem Ikarus gaben mir einen leichten Titanic Vibe. Ein Raumschiff, auf dem die Reichen feiern. Zwei junge Menschen, aus unterschiedlichen Schichten, die die gegenseitige Aufmerksamkeit erlangen und ein Absturz. Bis zu dem Absturz und auch einige Zeit danach, gefiel mir die Handlung sehr geht. Sie hatte eine mäßige Spannung und konnte mein Interesse noch sehr gut halten. Leider ändert sich das im Laufe der Geschichte. Ein großer Teil der Handlung beinhaltet das Überleben von Traver und Lilac. Die beiden erkunden den Planeten und versuchen mit ihren begrenzten Ressourcen so lange zu überleben, bis Hilfe kommt. Dies nimmt einen sehr großen Teil der Geschichte ein und ich muss sagen, dass es sich manchmal deswegen auch sehr gezogen hat. Generell dauert es recht lange, bis wirkliche Spannung aufkommt. Durch seltsame Vorkommnisse auf dem Planeten und dem Drang danach zu wissen, was dort los ist, möchte man zwar weiterlesen, aber zwischen dem ganzen Wandern hätte ab und an auch ruhig etwas mehr passieren können. Das wohl größte Manko des Buches ist das nicht vorhandene Wordbuilding und ich hoffe sehr, dass dazu mehr in den anderen Bänden kommen wird. Weder die technologischen Mittel noch die Vergangenheit geschweige denn die Gegenwart wird genauer erklärt. Die Gesellschaft dort ist nach Schichten unterteilt, doch auch hier fehlt es nach einer Erklärung für den Grund. Ich habe absolut kein Problem damit, wenn man mehr oder minder in eine neue Welt hineingeworfen wird, aber ein paar kleine Häppchen mit Erklärungen hätte ich mir dann doch gewünscht. Generell muss ich auch sagen, dass man das Weltraum Thema hätte auch fast komplett weglassen können. Es hätte auch genauso gut auf der Erde spielen können. Figuren: Meine Begeisterung zu den Charakteren hielt sich Anfangs eher in Grenzen, besonders wenn es um Lilac ging. Sie ist die klassische wohlbehütete Prinzessin, die ihre Attitude trotzt der Geschehnisse nicht abwerfen kann. Und auch wenn ihr Verhalten zum Teil ein Schutzmechanismus war, ging sie mir auf meinen verbleibenden Eierstock und ich hatte großes Mitleid mit Traver. Ihre phasenweise Sturheit führt auch dazu, dass sie sich selbst schadet. Im Laufe der Geschichte bessert sich jedoch ihr Charakter, sie gewinnt an Stärke und Einsicht und man versteht langsam, warum sie so gehandelt hat. Tarver hingegen mochte ich sehr gerne. Er ist der klassische Goodguy und nimmt seine Tätigkeit als Soldat sehr ernst. Eine Sache die mich an ihm jedoch gestört hat: bei nahezu jeder Gegelgenheit schwärmt er von Lilac und ihrer Schönheit und das bessert sich auch nicht, mit dem Fortschreiten der Geschichte. Romanze: Die Romanze an sich war sehr schöngeschrieben. Es war schön mit anzusehen, wie die beiden nach den anfänglichen Problemen sich langsam tolerieren, eine freundschaftliche Beziehung aufbauen und sich die Gefühle nach und nach verstärken Fazit: Zusammenfassend kann ich sagen, dass es sich hierbei um eine sehr schön geschriebenen YA Paranamol/SciFi Romance Roman handelt. Da ich gerne wissen möchte, was genau es mit dem Planeten auf sich hatte und inwiefern die Geschehnisse noch Auswirkungen haben, werde ich mir definitiv die anderen Bände anschauen.
In der Mitte hat es sich etwas gezogen, aber am Ende wurde es nochmal so richtig spannend.
This book caught me by surprise by grabbing my attention completely with just a few lines. The story seems intriguing right off the bat, the world so different. We are first introduced to Major Tarver Merendsen who comes from a poor family but rose quickly through the ranks and is now a war hero. As is to be expected he is ill at ease among the high-end society. But after a small incident pertaining to her, Tarver meets Lilac LaRoux, a Princess and very important person in their society, but he can't remember who she is. But the way she looks and talks and everything about her makes him be done for, he is already smitten with her. And it's quite adorable! But her father is a powerful enough man to make any man (especially) disappear if they talk or look at his daughter the wrong way; and so, as much as it pains her, Lilac had to break this poor man, for his own good. For some reason, the Icarus, the ship they're on, is pulled, violently, from hyperspace and panic ensues on the ship as fifty thousand people scramble for the podships. And you know two characters are meant to be together when they find each other by chance in this chaos. And with the rush of people around them, Lilac falls over the railing but manages to catch it a couple of flights down and Tarver is pulling her up. Still, after a small argument Lilac takes them to the mechanics' podship and, against her efforts, Tarver gets inside with her. When the escape pod fails to detach from Icarus, Lilac saves them by the skin of their teeth. And soon they are tumbling into a planet, pulled by its gravity. Lilac's and Tarver's situation is very complicated, they can't send a signal for rescue, the Icarus has crash-landed behind a mountain range and their animosity is not helping. Lilac is not used to walking so much and in the kind of shoes she's wearing soon she's able to walk at all. Tarver is doing his best to get them to the Icarus, because that's a place where they can definitely get a rescue, but Lilac isn't helping and neither is he. They are constantly antagonizing each other. As time goes by and Lilac starts having some problems with voices that are not there the dynamic between her and Tarver shifts. Even if Tarver doesn't complain and does what he has to to calm her down. And I really like how their relationship progresses, the stress and strain of the situation easing with a better and easier companionship. And Tarver very much likes Lilac, from the beginning. Lilac graduates from hearing things she can't understand to seeing people. She thinks she's being haunted and that gives her some sense of peacefulness because it means she's not going crazy. She reacts better to being haunted than insane. But Tarver does not. He's terrified that she's seeing things, namely the people from the crashed pod he buried and whom she did not see. So he lies to her when she describes them perfectly. But when they are taking shelter inside a mountain and she wakes up suddenly telling him that they have to leave because something will happen and he doesn't believe her, she runs, forcing Tarver after her. Just as the mountain comes crashing down on their shelter. Obviously, Tarver is just this side of terrified, not knowing what to say or do, unable to tell her she was right and that she was not crazy. But Lilac seems to be holding one quite well! For what she is described to be (by herself and Tarver) she's holding on wonderfully, and these are Tarver's thoughts too. They are at almost to the Icarus's wreck when the same visions that affect Lilac hit Tarver and he was really out of sorts, fearing what he saw. Lilac has an explanation for that: the colonists left the planet they are stranded on because the creatures that live there made them, in some way. The whispers Lilac hears have helped them more than once but Tarver is still apprehensive as to what their intentions are. I didn't think they werebad, I thought they wanted kind of the same thing as the man who approached her in the beginning: help. And I'm glad that I was right, because even thought the intentions of these creatures were selfish (they wanted Tarver and Lilac to save them so they helped them reach them), they were also harmless. At the Icarus, Tarver cuts his hand and falls really ill so Lilac has to search the ship as much as she can for the sick bay. In her search she falls down a level to where most of the bodies are and freaks out. She almost doesn't go back inside but the flower that Tarver gave her and that she was forced to leave behind because it was destroyed, appears on the ground before her (just like the canteen before, when they really needed water). And that is enough to give her the strength to keep her searching. And it's in this part, where she has to do things alone, that it is glaringly obvious how much she's changed. The two of them don't talk, don't express their true feelings and I want to hit them both! You like each other, dumbasses! Just admit it and it all will be better. Lilac wouldn't feel humiliated when she kissed Tarver and he pulled away; and he would be able to tell her that he doesn't want to get his hopes up about them only to lose her after their rescue, that he's afraid that she only wants him because there are no other options, that she's confusing relief with something else. Gods above, just talk to each other. When they finally talk to each other, Lilac has a terrible story to tell: her first boyfriend was sent to the front lines, untrained, and died, all because her father knew of their relationship and she blames herself. Still, Tarver tells her his truth as she told him hers and they are finally together. But that time is short. Since they can't find a way into the building the whispers showed them, Lilac remembers to blow it up. She sets is all up, because she's done it before. But things go horribly wrong when it explodes too soon and Lilac is injured. She has a piece of metal on her gut and it kills her. Kills her. And I was left feeling a void inside my chest again, wondering how in the ever loving Hel we got here. Why she had to die... It hurt and I was shocked. I was not expecting this... It was such a sweet, soft book up until this moment that maybe I should have seen it coming... He is shocked beyond belief, thinking about following her, giving up, unable to process things and move forward. That only makes everything worse. Somehow, someway, Lilac is back. And it's not a vision. The whispers brought her back, for a reason, to save them. Because they needed her and Traver and without her, he wouldn't do anything. But she's different, sensations too much for her, feeling kind of detached from herself. Together the two of them find the place where the whispers come from, light-based creatures with spectacular power. In an effort to save Lilac Tarver pushes her into the rift to the energy that brought her back. And it is just the solution he needed. The whispers wanted both of them alive, wanted their help to go back. And it all is resolved. But Lilac now knows that her father is not the man she thought he was and there a rift between them. She even threatens him of anything happens to Tarver! Threatens to expose him and what she saw on that planet, even when her father orders it blown to smithereens. This book drove me crazy with the need and want to read it! Was constantly on my mind. It was spectacular, more than I thought it would be! The characters are amazing, the setting, the plot! All marvellous! The plot keeps you wondering, keeps you tethered to the story. The characters are involving, lovely. And the writing is amazing, fast-paced. I loved this book!
This book had a great first part, a boring middle part and an illogical last part.
4.5 Sterne von mir! Am Anfang noch etwas schwach, dann aber total genial!:)
Dafür gibt es keine ausführliche Rezension. Das ist nur eine sehr zähe Lovestory im All...
Gosh what a read!!! if you haven't read these broken stars yet, I highly recommend you do because oh my god, this book ... literally killed me with its awesomeness!
I did enjoy it but the ending was kinda confusing and I am not sure if I like the direction this series is heading... 3,5/5