*shrugs* And, again, this doesn’t even bother me. And, frankly, I didn’t quite get the world they lived in. I don’t mind books that are more build-up than action, I never have, but I guess in my mind I had imagined a big bang of an ending after all the two main characters had been through. It had excellent writing, beautiful tension, and a pretty cool and unique plot: It just wasn’t for me. And also because this book wasn’t bad in any way, shape, or form. I’m not big on bashing books- especially when a new friend took the time to make a huge list of recs for me.
She’d been the most foolish girl on the island. She’d been cold and cruel and disloyal and distant. She’d been rational, logical, reasonable, prudent. “People are foolish when it comes to love.”Įlliot hadn’t been. Inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.īut Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret-one that could change their society. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth-an almost unrecognizable Kai.
Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.Įlliot North has always known her place in this world. For Darkness Shows the Stars ( For Darkness Shows the Stars #1)
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