Star Bringer
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
Firefly meets The Breakfast Club in this snarky, new adult romance.
The sun is dying…and it’s happening way too damn fast.
With the clock ticking, the Nine Planets’ only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it’s carrying. Which is why it really sucks when some jackass doesn’t want the universe saved and blows that station up—while you’re still on it.
So if your only choices are flaming death or stealing a flying hunk of space junk—you pick that busted-ass spaceship. Even if it leaves seven strangers with deadly secrets trapped together: a princess, a prisoner, a con artist, a warrior, a priestess, a mercenary, and an a*****e in charge of us all.
Now every faction in the galaxy is hunting this ship—from the Sisterhood to the Corporation, and the rebellion’s joining in on the fun, too. We just need to stop drinking, fighting, and screwing long enough to evade them all and save the freaking universe...somehow.
Because apparently the only thing standing between a dying sun and ultimate salvation is seven unlikely misfits…ahem, heroes.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A gang of misfits is the only hope for a solar system on the brink of destruction in this romantic sci-fi adventure. The sun of the heavily populated Nine Planets is dying, with billions of lives on the line. Meanwhile, an explosion at a secret space lab traps seven unlikely compatriots in an unruly starship—and they careen through space in an effort to reach the sun and repair it before their enemies catch up. Told through multiple first-person narrators, this boisterous tale is like a grown-up Breakfast Club in space. The fights, frustrations, and steamy romances that erupt between the well-drawn characters make for an exciting read that feels fun, intimate, and real.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Romance powerhouses Wolff (the CRAVE series) and Croft (the Dark Desires series) come together for a high-energy space opera replete with juicy interpersonal personal drama and budding love. A diplomatic tour of a research station dedicated to preventing the explosion of the Senestris System's sun ends with the whole structure imploding and a mismatched crew escaping together on a self-flying ship. Now "a princess, a priestess, a bodyguard, a prisoner, a con artist, a goofball," and the "self-appointed asshole in charge of them all" are trapped together. United by desperation in the face of numerous threats, the group develops close relationships: self-designated captain Ian becomes enthralled with Princess Kali, despite her naivete about the damage her family has done across many planets; and priestess Rain discovers first love with pilot, ex-rebel, and recent prisoner Beckett, whose use as an unwilling experimental subject has left her both scarred and angry. The setting is hastily sketched, the science is largely technobabble, and the intergalactic politics are unsubtle to the point of parody, but the fun is in the forced proximity of the colorful cast. The authors' relationship-building is so top-notch that it would be hard to leave this without a slew of new favorite characters. Readers will gobble this up.
