Starflight

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Melissa Landers

Fast-paced adventure, found family, intrigue, and enemies-to-lovers romance combine in an action-packed young adult novel for fans of Firefly.Solara Brooks needs a fresh start, someplace where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. Still, off-world travel doesn't come cheap, and Solara is left with no choice but to indenture herself in exchange for passage to the outer realm. She just wishes it could have been to anyone besides Doran Spaulding, the rich, pretty-boy quarterback who made her life miserable in school. The tables suddenly turn when Doran is framed for conspiracy on Earth, and Solara cons him into playing the role of her servant on board the Banshee. Given the price on both Doran and Solara's heads, it may just be the safest place in the universe. It's been a long time since Solara has believed in anyone, and Doran is the last person she expected to trust. But when the Banshee's dangerous enemies catch up with them, Solara and Doran must come together to protect the ship that has become their home—and the eccentric crew that feels like family.

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Author

Melissa Landers

Pages

368

Publisher

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published Date

2016-02-04

ISBN

1484735277 9781484735275

Ratings

Google: 5

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"A very enjoyable romp through space, with an enemies to lovers romance, a ragtag group of misfits becoming a family, political conspiracy, and some serious Firefly vibes. I really, really liked this one."

Shelby

"I remember not liking this book very much when I first picked it up. There's something Icky about a power imbalance that just takes me out of a story. The whole indentured servant thing will always bother me, especially in romance books. But after all of that got over and done with? I had SO much fun with this book. Most of my 'read' dates were really just it sitting in my bag, because I speed-read through most of this. I enjoyed myself so thoroughly. I LOVE romance. I LOVE banter. I LOVE found family. I'm glad everything turned out okay because when I was still in the climax on chapter 29/30 scared me.."

Kaleb

"If you loved Firefly/Serenity, read this I expected a love-hate romance with some science fiction. I got more than that! Solars is a criminal with her crimes literally on her skin. She gets a job offer on the fringe, a place between colonized and thriving and just colonized. She agrees to act as servant to her school bully who does his best to keep up the bullying. When an act of desperation forces her to flee with her kidnapped bully, she finds herself among a questionable crew. With an at-once kind and fearsome and very old captain, a kleptomaniac for a first mate, a contentious dreadlocked pair with some serious baggage, they find trouble at every turn. I would eat my hat if the author tried to claim Firefly didn’t at least inspire the universe. There are pirate crews, black market dealings, a ship with a very unique way about it, daeva which are basically cybernetic reavers, a ragtag crew who take passengers and do some less than legal trading, an oppressive government, it’s easy to see the similarities."

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Sarah Huff

"This book was an AMAZING sci-fi read that’s not very well known. It’s a must read!!"

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Caylee Garton

"Romantic and interesting"

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Eliza Lizzie