This book has been on my TBR for what feels like years…because it was literally years. Seven to be exact. I don’t know why I kept putting it off. I truly have no excuse. Anyways, I’m so glad that Lenore from Celebrity Readers asked if I’d like to buddy read it with her because it would most likely still be on my TBR shelf if she hadn’t. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner is the first in a series of standalone novels called Starboard. This one features Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen and their survival after a spaceliner crashes.

I started off reading this one as I had a Kindle copy that I purchased years ago, and I just could not get into the story. Not because I wasn’t enjoying it (I was), I was having a hard time focusing. That is all on me y’all and my headspace at the time I was reading the book. So I switched to audio and finished in like two days. The audiobook is fantastic. The narrators are spot on. I loved Johnathan McClain (I believe he is the one reading for Tarver). He brought the character to life, and where I was struggling to connect he helped me picture Tarver and fully fleshed him out in my mind. There are three narrators for this one. One for Tarver, one for Lilac, and one for a guard who questions Tarver after they are rescued. That is one thing about the book, you know that rescue will eventually come because of the questioning that occurs between the chapters. I actually liked this tactic. It added a little to the suspense because you know they survive but you have no idea what is coming for them next.

Now on to the characters