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A review by tatyanavogt
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
5.0
Sadly I wrote a full review on this only to have lost it all with a computer restart. Oh well.
The gist of it, is that I didn't know what to expect. This is a book that has been on my bookshelf for many years at this point and I frankly wasn't excited about reading it at all. But it fit with this months #buzzwordathon prompt of a book with space/star themed words in the title and since I had access to the audio book I decided to give it a listen while I worked on some chores...
BOY was this way more enjoyable than I expected it to be. I loved it. There is friendships, epic space battles, robots, romance and much more. I enjoyed the commentary on what it means to be human and questionings ones beliefs after experiencing new things.
The book is set in a world where the humans of earth have been destroying the world (too real) and are now at the tail end of of the planets life. There are humans who have found different worlds to live on but none have been the complete answer that billions of humans still on earth need.
Genesis, being the best option has decided not to allow earth to take it over for fear that they will kill it the same way they are killing earth. One of our main characters is a fighter of Genesis actively protecting the portal between Genesis and Earth and the story starts with a battle between the two planets where she finds an unexpected bot that had been forgotten in the wreckage of war.
MY only complaint so far is that the main character is so young, and I would have preferred her to be older, but in general I'm not the biggest fan of YA anymore because of that. So I just pretend she is older in my head which isnt that hard to do based off of the general story.
The gist of it, is that I didn't know what to expect. This is a book that has been on my bookshelf for many years at this point and I frankly wasn't excited about reading it at all. But it fit with this months #buzzwordathon prompt of a book with space/star themed words in the title and since I had access to the audio book I decided to give it a listen while I worked on some chores...
BOY was this way more enjoyable than I expected it to be. I loved it. There is friendships, epic space battles, robots, romance and much more. I enjoyed the commentary on what it means to be human and questionings ones beliefs after experiencing new things.
The book is set in a world where the humans of earth have been destroying the world (too real) and are now at the tail end of of the planets life. There are humans who have found different worlds to live on but none have been the complete answer that billions of humans still on earth need.
Genesis, being the best option has decided not to allow earth to take it over for fear that they will kill it the same way they are killing earth. One of our main characters is a fighter of Genesis actively protecting the portal between Genesis and Earth and the story starts with a battle between the two planets where she finds an unexpected bot that had been forgotten in the wreckage of war.
MY only complaint so far is that the main character is so young, and I would have preferred her to be older, but in general I'm not the biggest fan of YA anymore because of that. So I just pretend she is older in my head which isnt that hard to do based off of the general story.