These Broken Stars had a great combination of science fiction with leaving on the land. When the brand new, state of the art, hyper space ship Lilac and Tarver are travelling on (which happens to be build by Lilac's father) suffers from a horrible malfunction, they are stranded on a strange planet with little in the way of technology to help them. Lilac, being the ultimate society girl, has no clue how they will ever make it until rescue arrives. While Tarver, a soldier used to living off the bare minimums on the front line, immediately starts making plans to get them both through it alive.

But the planet itself seems to have other ideas. With its strange whispers and shimmery images become a character in its own right - as it seems to be guiding the two along an unknown path. Along the way Lilac and Tarver learn a lot about each other - the good, the bad, and the parts they'd like to hide. It's hard to keep anything from the only other human an entire planet. When they realize their feelings for each other have grown, it turns into more complications - mostly involving Lilac's family and their expectations.

Each chapters opens with a small piece of dialog from Tarver's debriefing interview which occurs after the events in the book - but it gives you a great perspective into what they are willing to share with the world and what they want to keep private, although the reason why isn't clear at first. This was an amazing start to a new series - I wish the second was out sooner so I didn't have to wait for it.
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