Stardust

Stardust #1

by Arad

Isolated from her friends and taken prisoner in the middle of a war, Twilight must deal with the very real dangers of being percieved as an enemy as well as the nightmares of her arrival on 'Earth'. Can she overcome her own fears and the fears of her captors? Will the wayward unicorn's assistance be a boon or a curse to the 'humans?' Most importantly, will she ever find her way home?

Genres: Fan Fiction, Science Fiction

729 pages, ebook

First published May 2, 2013

Reviews

[Sparrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

A few repetitive one-liners aren't enough to outweigh such a well-built story. This portrayed certain of today's more troublesome social mores with emotional heft as well as comic relief in just the right balance. This story starts out an intense one, and that doesn't really calm down much for the first-time reader until well into it, but this is the sort of story that makes you hope for a hapy conclusion, and that hope drags your forward until the end. A bit violent, but that's usually what one would expect in a story about senseless extraterrestrial attack. While there was quite a bit of foul language, it wasn’t beneath the vocabulary of the humans involved. I'm honestly glad that such parlance common among soldiers was confined to the humans’ speech.

Overall, a compelling read.

[Jason Pos · Rating 5 out of 5]

An XCOM / MLP crossover story with Twilight, Humans, Earth, Space aliens, war and destruction. Very entertaining and quite violent in places. An excellent read that I polished off in five days of after hours reading.
I usually read the Fallout:Equestria based MLP books but this was just as enjoyable.

[Facedeer · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the weirder crossovers I can recall seeing, this is My Little Pony meets X-Com. And it does a bizarrely excellent job of blending the two settings without diminishing either of them. We get to see how Twilight deals with being stuck in a rather horrible universe besieged by paranoia and violence, and we get to see how the X-Com universe deals with an actual friendly alien who genuinely wants to help.

This book's got both good characterization (both for Twilight and for the humans) and an interesting plot, with everyone working to unravel mysteries and trying to maybe not get killed quite so much as they would otherwise. It's not for the faint of heart but it's certainly not meant to be depressing and I think the ending was sound.