Star-Crossed
by Pintip Dunn
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: October 2nd 2018
Entangled Teen
Summary:
In a world where nutrition can be transferred via a pill, and society is split into Eaters and Non-Eaters, seventeen-year-old Princess Vela has a grave dilemma. Her father, the king, is dying, and only a transplant of organs from a healthy Non-Eater boy will save him.
Vela is tasked with choosing a boy fit to die for the king, which is impossible enough. But then Carr, the boy she's loved all her life, emerges as the best candidate in the Bittersweet Trials. And he's determined to win, because by doing so, he can save the life of his Non-Eater sister.
Refusing to accept losing the boy she loves, Vela bends the rules and cheats. But when someone begins to sabotage the Trials, Vela must reevaluate her own integrity—and learn the true sacrifice of becoming a ruler.
by Pintip Dunn
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: October 2nd 2018
Entangled Teen
Summary:
In a world where nutrition can be transferred via a pill, and society is split into Eaters and Non-Eaters, seventeen-year-old Princess Vela has a grave dilemma. Her father, the king, is dying, and only a transplant of organs from a healthy Non-Eater boy will save him.
Vela is tasked with choosing a boy fit to die for the king, which is impossible enough. But then Carr, the boy she's loved all her life, emerges as the best candidate in the Bittersweet Trials. And he's determined to win, because by doing so, he can save the life of his Non-Eater sister.
Refusing to accept losing the boy she loves, Vela bends the rules and cheats. But when someone begins to sabotage the Trials, Vela must reevaluate her own integrity—and learn the true sacrifice of becoming a ruler.
My Review:
Star-Crossed tells the story of a young girl, Princess Vela
who lives on a distant planet. There is not enough food to go around and feed
everyone so they set up a system many, many years ago with a way to support the
people. With this new system only the chosen ones get to eat in order to be
able to eat they have to give up a part of their life span and become an Aegis.
Aegis gets to eat while others do not. An Aegis eats the food and then the
nutrients are drawn from their bodies and made into pills to give to the rest
of the colonist.
Vela’s father is the king and has lived many, many years. It
is now time for someone else to take over leadership. Vela and her sister are
the only two people that are in the running so they have to complete tasks that
are given to them by the council. The task that they have to complete may end
in someone losing their life. The council needs to know who can make the right
decisions for the whole of the colony without being selfless. Who is the best
person to be Queen? Will it be Vela or Blanca? Vela has to make some tough and difficult
choices while doing the task set before her.
The guy that Vela has liked for a long time steps up to the
plate when her father becomes ill to give is life for her fathers. Vela doesn’t
want to lose the guy she has been in love with nor does she want to lose her
father. How can she save both of them? Can she save either one? Is it in her
hands to save them?
After Vela starts the task given to her by the council she
soon learns that the colony and its people are all in danger and lives are
being sacrificed. Vela has to race against the clock to find the culprit before
time runs out.
I really enjoyed Star-Crossed way more than I ever thought I
would. Once I picked it up I was racing to the end to find out how it was all
going to turn out. I never saw that ending coming. When an author can keep you
in the dark for that long then you know you have a winner.
Star-Crossed is unlike anything I have read before. You know
the saying go where no one has gone before? Well let me tell you Star-Crossed
does just that takes you where no one has gone before with so many twist and
turns that keeps you floating all the way to the end.
Oh and I think Star-Crossed needs to have a warning put on
it something like “warning, warning while reading this book a box tissue is
needed. Star-Crossed will pull at the heartstrings over and over until the
tears are streaming. The world building is astronomical.
Star-Crossed is one of those books that I would highly
recommend to all readers.
About the Author
Pintip Dunn is a New York Times bestselling author of YA fiction. She graduated
from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with an A.B. in English Literature
and Language. She received her J.D. at Yale Law School.
Pintip’s novel, FORGET TOMORROW, won the RWA RITA® for Best First Book. It is
also a finalist for the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire, the Japanese Sakura Medal,
the MASL Truman Award, and the Tome Society It list. In addition, THE DARKEST
LIE was nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award. Her other books
include REMEMBER YESTERDAY, SEIZE TODAY, and GIRL ON THE VERGE.
She lives with her husband and children in Maryland.
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