Friday Reads: This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner!!!

Hello guys!

Friday is here! And although today it's once again not a typical Friday for me, well typical for me as a nurse, but not for the rest of people with more usual working times. I'm once again working this weekend and I'm hoping it will be decent working weekend and not one of those mad ones.

For this week's Friday Reads I have one of my most awaited books from last year, one that I didn't get until earlier this month because I preordered a signed (and personalized!) copy on Books of Wonder, but as soon as it arrived I dived right into it!



This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Last year I read and loved These Broken Stars and so I was extremely excited for the second book in this companion novels series. So as soon as I got my hands on my copy, and once I got back from work, reading started and I didn't stop till I finished, sleep be damned!

This Shattered World takes place in Avon, a planet that is still undergoing terraforming and development, that is behind on schedule and that has the very explosive combination of unhappy natives and an outpost of the military there to try and keep the peace.

Our characters, Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac, are in different sides of the conflict, with different opinions, motivations and goals in life. You could say that the only thing they have in common is being in the same bar, in the same planet, at the same time. Flynn is a pacifist part of a rebel group and Jubilee is known as "Stonefaced" Chase and has a reputation for being tough and quite simply kick arse!

Flynn is not a man of action but he ends up taking on Jubilee, kidnapping her and starting a load of trouble for them both. They start from opposite sides, and by spending time together, fighting, debating and lost in the wilderness, they find that they might understand each other more than they would have every expected. And they find themselves on the same side trying to stop a disaster of planetary dimensions.

Jubilee is a tough girl, a soldier that founds her purpose and a reason to go on after some tragedies in her past, and she's so dedicated, that she's got a reputation that precedes her and makes her the biggest target for the rebels. She made think of Zoe from Firefly and I was rooting for her and her kick arse self from page one! The banter with Flynn, that starts like flirting, changes to hostility and mistrust and ends up in understanding and something more was simply fantastic! I loved how their relationship progressed, with a slow burn and loads of chemistry all over!

I won't be saying all that much about the plot, or when & where do Lilac and Tarver come into this because it's a slippery slope with spoilers, but all I can say it's that we learn more about certain "others" that we already met and it makes me loath and fear even more Lilac's dad. And I'm even more worried about what will happen on book 3!

Another fantastic space opera that appeals to me in the same way that Star Wars and Firefly did, very much deserving of 4.5 stars!

I'm simply in love with all the Irish refences in the book when it comes to the rebels, the language, the legends, the independence fight, their underdogs feel... I'm a lover of all things Irish, so this one simply was a treat on itself.



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