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My Star: A Post-Apocalyptic Adventure
Earth has grown cold and polluted, and the population is divided between a very small and select upper class controlling all wealth and resources, and the vast majority of the population living in extreme poverty. This is the story of a girl's quest to follow her dreams in spite of it all. On her journey towards discovering the meaning of life she stumbles across a dark secret holding Earth in an iron grip. She has no idea what forces she's up against and soon she finds herself all alone and left to die on an alien planet, and she's running out of oxygen. Welcome to space. Prepare to be sucked in...
- GenresScience Fiction
144 pages, Paperback
First published December 3, 2012
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June 3, 2015
Wow. I am impressed... with myself... for actually reading this whole thing.
Problem numero uno: the main character? She's a moron. A moron who says such choice things as, "Space and space technology is amazing... literally 'a maze' to me." Or, "I used to pursue my 'career' with power and action, but in the end, I started to feel like a man. Perhaps that's why Jag couldn't be with me - because I was behaving more masculine than feminine. In my career, I was running things, controlling things, pushing things, and I was very good at it, and it was expected of me too. I guess I ended up being like that all the time - including at home with him. I couldn't turn it off when I got home, I couldn't switch it off and become a softer person the moment I stepped in the door. But what I can do now, is give up behaving like a man entirely, and allow myself to be a feminine women. Let love be the primary focus of my life. Alongside science." LAWL. Better stop breathing, cuz men do that too!
Oh and then she spends the second part of the story wondering if the person she met like a week before loves her and wants to marry her. Honey, what if he doesn't like how science is the co-primary focus of your life? Then you'll have to change yourself for love again! Oh, the inhumanity of it all!
Problem numero uno: the main character? She's a moron. A moron who says such choice things as, "Space and space technology is amazing... literally 'a maze' to me." Or, "I used to pursue my 'career' with power and action, but in the end, I started to feel like a man. Perhaps that's why Jag couldn't be with me - because I was behaving more masculine than feminine. In my career, I was running things, controlling things, pushing things, and I was very good at it, and it was expected of me too. I guess I ended up being like that all the time - including at home with him. I couldn't turn it off when I got home, I couldn't switch it off and become a softer person the moment I stepped in the door. But what I can do now, is give up behaving like a man entirely, and allow myself to be a feminine women. Let love be the primary focus of my life. Alongside science." LAWL. Better stop breathing, cuz men do that too!
Oh and then she spends the second part of the story wondering if the person she met like a week before loves her and wants to marry her. Honey, what if he doesn't like how science is the co-primary focus of your life? Then you'll have to change yourself for love again! Oh, the inhumanity of it all!
March 17, 2014
I read the first 21 pages of this book. They were literally the worst 21 pages I have ever read in my entire life. I could elaborate, but I really think the text speaks for itself:
"The only truth behind my lies is that for as long as I can remember, I've dreamed of everlasting love, as well as accomplishing something extraordinary, like solving the energy crisis on Earth... But I never dared to pursue the dream. At least then I could keep the dream of the probably possibility intact... But no more. I'm no longer depriving myself of the joy of pursuing my dream of science... I'm not an expert in anything... if anything, I'm a non-expert... a 'noxpert'... I love doing that -- creating new words for comical effect. Take for instance the word brunch. They started serving breakfast at lunchtime, and needed a new word for it. The new word became a combination of the two old ones -- 'br' from 'breakfast' and 'unch' from 'lunch' -- hence 'brunch'."
Yep. It says all of that.
"The only truth behind my lies is that for as long as I can remember, I've dreamed of everlasting love, as well as accomplishing something extraordinary, like solving the energy crisis on Earth... But I never dared to pursue the dream. At least then I could keep the dream of the probably possibility intact... But no more. I'm no longer depriving myself of the joy of pursuing my dream of science... I'm not an expert in anything... if anything, I'm a non-expert... a 'noxpert'... I love doing that -- creating new words for comical effect. Take for instance the word brunch. They started serving breakfast at lunchtime, and needed a new word for it. The new word became a combination of the two old ones -- 'br' from 'breakfast' and 'unch' from 'lunch' -- hence 'brunch'."
Yep. It says all of that.
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October 22, 2013I recommend all my friends to read this book.
It's entertaining, mystifying, philosophical, and even has some love in it. Overall the theme is very post-apocalyptic and somewhat dystopic, which I like. I also like the heroine being both strong and vulnerable, but mostly courageous and seeking action and adventure. I'm totally a fan of sci-fi and young adult literature, and I'm happy that I found this book to read after Hunger Games, Twilight, and the Wool books.
It's a really good book, and I recommend everyone to pick it up right now!
It's entertaining, mystifying, philosophical, and even has some love in it. Overall the theme is very post-apocalyptic and somewhat dystopic, which I like. I also like the heroine being both strong and vulnerable, but mostly courageous and seeking action and adventure. I'm totally a fan of sci-fi and young adult literature, and I'm happy that I found this book to read after Hunger Games, Twilight, and the Wool books.
It's a really good book, and I recommend everyone to pick it up right now!
October 23, 2015
Format: Paperback
Reading this book is like having a bowl of ripe cherries - you just keep at it and suddenly you've eaten them all and you still want more.
A fresh perspective on love and sci-fi without a look of boring descriptions of this and that. We jump right into the story and it keeps evolving.
I can't wait to read the sequel! :)
Reading this book is like having a bowl of ripe cherries - you just keep at it and suddenly you've eaten them all and you still want more.
A fresh perspective on love and sci-fi without a look of boring descriptions of this and that. We jump right into the story and it keeps evolving.
I can't wait to read the sequel! :)
October 23, 2013
I found the book very interesting with unusual twists. I am not a great Sci-Fi reader but I like this book.
January 17, 2016
Wow.... If you like aliens and space this is a book to read. But it is a cliff hanger so know you will need the next book to keep going. Thank you for the adventure.
January 1, 2019
This book needed more work before publication.
I see reviews from people who really liked it. Good for you ^_^ And that hopefully means that my less than positive review is just because I am not the target audience.
Because I am definitely not the target audience. Keep that in mind, and I read this book when my dad was very close to dying, so I was stressed.
But this is in my opinion still a book that is more like a first draft.
I think the story has potential to hit a lot of teenage girls right in the feels... but I think it needs some work.
And then the people who already liked it, would probably like it even more :)
In my opinion the characters are flat, boring, stereotypical, very often annoying and their motivation doesn't always seem believable.
I really hated the main character after only just a few pages, and that is of course a big reason why I don't like the book. (A bit like the way I got annoyed with Bella Swan and Anastacia Steel - that wet paper towel of a character... So yeah, if you liked twilight and 50 shades, we just don't have the same taste in books, and that's ok ^_^)
If you read it and liked the main character and her quest for love and all her thoughts about: how does he feel? does he love me too? does this mean what I think it means? Then you probably don't have a problem with this book. And many YAreaders DO like the pining, the thoughts back and forth, the inner monologues and stuff like that, so again... potential, I am just not the main audience and I think it could have been better executed with some polishing.
I can deal with some of the scifi not really making sense. I don't think the book ever pretended it would give me very hardcore scientific explanations for stuff, it just wants to set this romance on a spaceship, and that's OK with me.
But I have no patience for badly written characters.
The main characters often sound very whiny and she is sometimes maybe not directly homophobic, but she does use some problematic slurs, that I don't think were intentional from the author, and they should have been weeded out of the manuscript. that goes for derogatory critique of people because they "look like nerds". The main character wasn't a very good role model is what I am saying, and the book would have been better, if the main character had been someone the reader could look up to and learn good things from.
The main character just doesn't seem that nice to me, she doesn't seem confident or competent either. She doesn't do much, and I don't really see a good character arch for her.
So it's mostly just her moping and pining.
And that's just not my thing.
I am sure some girls who might lack in self confidence or just had a break up can identify with the main character... but I would have preferred if she actually gained some strength in the end, showing such readers a constructive way to deal with rejection... but that's not what I got. The main character is just as dependent on a relationship with a guy to give her life meaning in the end of the book as in the beginning.
I don't know what the next books bring, and I'll never know, because I feel absolutely no need to find out. I don't care about any of the characters.
And the writing should have had a couple of more brushes. The very first page repeats itself so many times:
QUOTE:
...
He was the only man I ever truly wanted to share my life with - unfortunately, he didn't share my dream.
He wasn't sure if he liked me enough to be with me...
...
I don't see love on Earth anymore.
There is no love for me.
He's here, but doesn't want me, so there's no longer anything left of true value for me here.
...
Staying on Earth seems to me like dwelling on my lost love,
...
... since I can't find love on Earth, I reckon it's worth giving the stars a closer look.
So there is no family, no friends, hobbies or other things at all on Earth that could have any value than this guy who didn't love the main character back?
Yeah I get that the author just wants to get on with the story on the spaceship, but backstory matters... as does depth, and this main character was way to defined by men to ever earn a place in this feminazi's heart ^_~
With some more work I think this series could capture a lot of young girls.
If the characters actually start being proactive, start changing, gain some depth and get a character arch (maybe learn that there is more to life than finding a man, and you can have a boyfriend AND other interests at the same time) then I guess the series could be a nice YA-read.
The book isn't very long, maybe if more stuff happens in the next books it could benefit from being published as ONE longer book with a full character arch.
I see reviews from people who really liked it. Good for you ^_^ And that hopefully means that my less than positive review is just because I am not the target audience.
Because I am definitely not the target audience. Keep that in mind, and I read this book when my dad was very close to dying, so I was stressed.
But this is in my opinion still a book that is more like a first draft.
I think the story has potential to hit a lot of teenage girls right in the feels... but I think it needs some work.
And then the people who already liked it, would probably like it even more :)
In my opinion the characters are flat, boring, stereotypical, very often annoying and their motivation doesn't always seem believable.
I really hated the main character after only just a few pages, and that is of course a big reason why I don't like the book. (A bit like the way I got annoyed with Bella Swan and Anastacia Steel - that wet paper towel of a character... So yeah, if you liked twilight and 50 shades, we just don't have the same taste in books, and that's ok ^_^)
If you read it and liked the main character and her quest for love and all her thoughts about: how does he feel? does he love me too? does this mean what I think it means? Then you probably don't have a problem with this book. And many YAreaders DO like the pining, the thoughts back and forth, the inner monologues and stuff like that, so again... potential, I am just not the main audience and I think it could have been better executed with some polishing.
I can deal with some of the scifi not really making sense. I don't think the book ever pretended it would give me very hardcore scientific explanations for stuff, it just wants to set this romance on a spaceship, and that's OK with me.
But I have no patience for badly written characters.
The main characters often sound very whiny and she is sometimes maybe not directly homophobic, but she does use some problematic slurs, that I don't think were intentional from the author, and they should have been weeded out of the manuscript. that goes for derogatory critique of people because they "look like nerds". The main character wasn't a very good role model is what I am saying, and the book would have been better, if the main character had been someone the reader could look up to and learn good things from.
The main character just doesn't seem that nice to me, she doesn't seem confident or competent either. She doesn't do much, and I don't really see a good character arch for her.
So it's mostly just her moping and pining.
And that's just not my thing.
I am sure some girls who might lack in self confidence or just had a break up can identify with the main character... but I would have preferred if she actually gained some strength in the end, showing such readers a constructive way to deal with rejection... but that's not what I got. The main character is just as dependent on a relationship with a guy to give her life meaning in the end of the book as in the beginning.
I don't know what the next books bring, and I'll never know, because I feel absolutely no need to find out. I don't care about any of the characters.
And the writing should have had a couple of more brushes. The very first page repeats itself so many times:
QUOTE:
...
He was the only man I ever truly wanted to share my life with - unfortunately, he didn't share my dream.
He wasn't sure if he liked me enough to be with me...
...
I don't see love on Earth anymore.
There is no love for me.
He's here, but doesn't want me, so there's no longer anything left of true value for me here.
...
Staying on Earth seems to me like dwelling on my lost love,
...
... since I can't find love on Earth, I reckon it's worth giving the stars a closer look.
So there is no family, no friends, hobbies or other things at all on Earth that could have any value than this guy who didn't love the main character back?
Yeah I get that the author just wants to get on with the story on the spaceship, but backstory matters... as does depth, and this main character was way to defined by men to ever earn a place in this feminazi's heart ^_~
With some more work I think this series could capture a lot of young girls.
If the characters actually start being proactive, start changing, gain some depth and get a character arch (maybe learn that there is more to life than finding a man, and you can have a boyfriend AND other interests at the same time) then I guess the series could be a nice YA-read.
The book isn't very long, maybe if more stuff happens in the next books it could benefit from being published as ONE longer book with a full character arch.
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