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The Starriest Summer: The Cycle of the Six Moons, Book 1
Fifteen-year-old Michelle saves the world on a daily basis…with her trusty video game controller, of course!
Naturally, she jumps at the chance to play an experimental virtual reality game. The beautiful fantasy world of Starrs? Check. The power to mold matter? Check. No reset button? Wait, she didn’t sign up for this! Turns out Starrs is really real, and to make matters worse, Michelle’s interference awakens the Cycle of the Six Moons, a series of devastating trials that will devour the universe.
Fighting the apocalypse was way easier when danger stayed on the other side of the screen, but Michelle finds a secret weapon in her new-found powers. She uses them to rescue the crown prince of a powerful magic kingdom from their sworn enemies, a technologically-advanced cult that strives to eradicate magical blood. Michelle starts to fall for Prince Jayse, the only one who believes Michelle to be a savior rather than a curse. But not even video games could prepare her for what the cult has in store for them....
Naturally, she jumps at the chance to play an experimental virtual reality game. The beautiful fantasy world of Starrs? Check. The power to mold matter? Check. No reset button? Wait, she didn’t sign up for this! Turns out Starrs is really real, and to make matters worse, Michelle’s interference awakens the Cycle of the Six Moons, a series of devastating trials that will devour the universe.
Fighting the apocalypse was way easier when danger stayed on the other side of the screen, but Michelle finds a secret weapon in her new-found powers. She uses them to rescue the crown prince of a powerful magic kingdom from their sworn enemies, a technologically-advanced cult that strives to eradicate magical blood. Michelle starts to fall for Prince Jayse, the only one who believes Michelle to be a savior rather than a curse. But not even video games could prepare her for what the cult has in store for them....
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Published December 19, 2025
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Adelle Yeung
6 books85 followersAdelle Yeung is the author of The Cycle of the Six Moons trilogy, a young adult fantasy adventure.
She is also a voice-over artist who can’t go a day without a cup of tea. When she’s not writing or recording, she enjoys sewing costumes, baking sweets, and escaping on video game adventures. She lives in California with a cat that dreams of eating the pet bird.
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She is also a voice-over artist who can’t go a day without a cup of tea. When she’s not writing or recording, she enjoys sewing costumes, baking sweets, and escaping on video game adventures. She lives in California with a cat that dreams of eating the pet bird.
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July 20, 2026
I won a copy of this audiobook through Storygraph.
I need to preface this entire review with the knowledge that this audiobook narrator does the dreamy/drunk narration voice that I hate with a passion. I’m putting it at 2-stars since I don’t feel like I can accurately critique some of the line writing since the narrator makes every word come off as annoying and tonally wrong for the scene.
I've never heard anyone talking in real life make every 2nd word a sigh and every 3rd word slightly slurred in real life, but all of a sudden, it's every audiobook narrator ever, and this book is no exception. It makes the entire tone of the book seem ridiculous. The most emotional thing that was not in that dreamy/drunk tone and felt anywhere near some sort of anguish was when that character whined about the Healer being hot and that it was “unfair” that he was so hot. This had more emotion than her getting injured or any other negative plot things that happened in the entire book. I don’t understand why audiobook narrators do this. Ruins the entire book. I’ve listened to some books narrated by voice actors/celebrities, and they’re so much more normal in their narration and capture way more emotion because they vary their emotions instead of keeping the same voice the whole time. I genuinely prefer the robot auto-read on my geology textbooks over whatever this default audiobook narration style is.
Plot-wise, I found this book underwhelming. There were two very interesting ways this book could have dealt with the fantasy world: First, it could have been an actual videogame world, which would have felt new and unique if the author managed to translate videogame world-building quirks and story structure into a novel. Second, this could have been a real fantasy world and the MC was CONVINCED she was in a video game world and dealt with some psychological aspects/absurdity of it, with her causing a whole lot of problems because she does not believe this is real (she does have chosen one/video game protagonist powers in the book). Instead, we got a very very very lacklustre attempt at making the MC feel like she was in a video game, as in she mentions it occasionally here and there, but does not act like a player in a video game. So, instead of either of these cool ideas, we are left with a generic, underdeveloped fantasy world. The most video-game accurate thing is feeling like each village only has 4 buildings that you can interact with and an insane power-scaling curve. The MC turns rocks into both Tylenol and chicken breast to help her survive, and all the characters call her Goddess.
Since this is a real fantasy world and not a videogame world, I have so many questions about the setup that aren’t answered. I am also severely questioning why/how the MC’s brother just had the portal to this world in their basement and why he sent her there in the first place. And how did he manage all of this? He’s a teenager too! Although since every woman has breasts that are about to fall out of her top, it does make sense that a teenage boy designed this/it is a videogame.
If it’s the videogame world that’s drawing you in (as it was for me), Jumanji and Spy Kids do it better.
I need to preface this entire review with the knowledge that this audiobook narrator does the dreamy/drunk narration voice that I hate with a passion. I’m putting it at 2-stars since I don’t feel like I can accurately critique some of the line writing since the narrator makes every word come off as annoying and tonally wrong for the scene.
I've never heard anyone talking in real life make every 2nd word a sigh and every 3rd word slightly slurred in real life, but all of a sudden, it's every audiobook narrator ever, and this book is no exception. It makes the entire tone of the book seem ridiculous. The most emotional thing that was not in that dreamy/drunk tone and felt anywhere near some sort of anguish was when that character whined about the Healer being hot and that it was “unfair” that he was so hot. This had more emotion than her getting injured or any other negative plot things that happened in the entire book. I don’t understand why audiobook narrators do this. Ruins the entire book. I’ve listened to some books narrated by voice actors/celebrities, and they’re so much more normal in their narration and capture way more emotion because they vary their emotions instead of keeping the same voice the whole time. I genuinely prefer the robot auto-read on my geology textbooks over whatever this default audiobook narration style is.
Plot-wise, I found this book underwhelming. There were two very interesting ways this book could have dealt with the fantasy world: First, it could have been an actual videogame world, which would have felt new and unique if the author managed to translate videogame world-building quirks and story structure into a novel. Second, this could have been a real fantasy world and the MC was CONVINCED she was in a video game world and dealt with some psychological aspects/absurdity of it, with her causing a whole lot of problems because she does not believe this is real (she does have chosen one/video game protagonist powers in the book). Instead, we got a very very very lacklustre attempt at making the MC feel like she was in a video game, as in she mentions it occasionally here and there, but does not act like a player in a video game. So, instead of either of these cool ideas, we are left with a generic, underdeveloped fantasy world. The most video-game accurate thing is feeling like each village only has 4 buildings that you can interact with and an insane power-scaling curve. The MC turns rocks into both Tylenol and chicken breast to help her survive, and all the characters call her Goddess.
Since this is a real fantasy world and not a videogame world, I have so many questions about the setup that aren’t answered. I am also severely questioning why/how the MC’s brother just had the portal to this world in their basement and why he sent her there in the first place. And how did he manage all of this? He’s a teenager too! Although since every woman has breasts that are about to fall out of her top, it does make sense that a teenage boy designed this/it is a videogame.
If it’s the videogame world that’s drawing you in (as it was for me), Jumanji and Spy Kids do it better.
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