These Broken Stars 

By Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Genre: Young Adult Sci Fi
Personal Rating: 9/10

First off, how gorgeous is this cover? I think I can honestly say that his is my favorite cover of any YA book I've read so far. What's wonderful about it is that it perfectly depicts the characters of the novel--right down to the color of Lilac's dress. Definitely a book you should judge from the cover.

To me, this book is a nice mix between Star Treck and Titanic. Part outerspace adventure/survival, and part forbidden love.  Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen come from two completely different worlds. He's a decorated war hero, she's the daughter of the richest man in the universe. When the luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet, Lilac and Tarver are the only survivors. They crash land on a seemingly deserted planet, and are forced into survival mode in order to stay alive long enough to send out a distress signal. But the planet they've landed on is full of secrets neither of them where prepared for.

This entire book in incredibly unpredictable. The world Kaufman and Spooner created is thrilling, complex, and wonderfully unique. The book is written in duel first-person perspective, so the reader gets a good look into Lilac and Tarver's minds and into their pasts. I adored these two characters. They evolved a lot through out the novel but not so much that their personalities where lost. I loved the exciting survival aspect, the alien/space exploration, and of course the love story.

This is the first novel in the Starbound Trilogy. The second novel--This Shattered World --came out this last December and the third is yet to be released.