Genre: Sci- Fi
Hardcover: 407 Pages
Published: June 12, 2012
Series: For Darkness Shows the Stars
1. For
Darkness Shows the Stars
2. Across a
Star-Swept Sea
Rating:★★★★
Goodreads Synopsis:
It's been several generations
since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity
and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.
Elliot North has
always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away
with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's
estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of
Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate
is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group
of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth--an
almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their
second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up
when she let him go.
But Elliot soon
discovers her old friend carries a secret--one that could change their society
. . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to
what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever
loved, even if she's lost him forever.
Inspired by Jane
Austen's Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to
the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.
My Review:
Elliot North knows how to get things done. As a member
of the elite Luddite nobility, she knows what is expected of her and what is
not. It is this sense of duty and loyalty to her family and name that kept her
from running away with the love of her life Kia, four years ago. Their
friendship was forbidden from the beginning since they were of two different
elite groups.
Now, four long years later, at age eighteen, Elliot is
the only thing keeping her family and land afloat. As her father and sister
grow away from reality, the world as they know it is changing. Elliot convinces
her family to leave the land to a suspicious new group of shipwrights known as
Cloud Fleet. This will hopefully give her family more income and a new life far
from her land.
However, as she gets to meet the captain of this Cloud
Fleet she discovers he is none other than her childhood friend and lover
Kia---no longer the playful, funny, kind Kia, but smart, distant Captain Malakai
Wentforth. Elliot knows how to be a hard worker, but she may not be up to the
task of containing her guilt and longing that overtakes her with his unexpected
return.
Overall, I really liked this book. It was a quick and
easy read. I loved the characters and how they were portrayed as realistic. Malakai
and Elliot were hilarious and their love was sweet and innocent laced with fire
and passion.
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