BOOK REVIEW - THIS SHATTERED WORLD
(Disclaimer, this is REALLY long)
Super short recap! GO!
Capt. Lee Chase and Flynn Cormac have to save Avon, A war-ridden planet, from La roux industries - led by Roderick Laroux, who’s A teeny bit insane - who are going to corrupt the soldier's minds with something called the fury. (There’s a bit- okay, a lot of romance*, just saying…)
Set In -
The whole Starbound trilogy is set a long, long, LONG way into the future, a place where holograms and hover cars are replacements of digital items and sports cars. Roderick Laroux is the richest man in the galaxy and rules over the different planets with an iron fist. Avon is a planet created by La Roux industries and is in the stages of terraforming so it cannot support life fully. It is a land of swamps and deserts, and one small town sits on its face, surrounded by military barracks, and placed right next to a military base. Out in the swamps, a rebel base underground houses a group called the Fianna, rebelling against their bad holo-signal, and how the military gets better resources and a better holo-signal.
*By romance I mean Lots of kissing, but it isn’t as bad as the first book in the trilogy. On that note, it’s time for a...
Age recommendation- young adult, 15 & up.
My response…
I liked this book. Like, I really, really liked this book. The reason I’m writing about the second book is that it was my favorite one. Amy Kaufman also wrote Ice wolves, which is also a young adult’s book, so that led me to search up her name in my dad’s kindle on a ski trip. I really actually do judge a book by its cover, and the cover of the first book in the trilogy, “These broken stars” was absolutely phenomenal. I would describe the genre as something in between action and romance. Or both. The third book in the trilogy is called “Their fractured light and all three book have a connection. In the first, Lilac Laroux and Tarver Merendsen discover the whispers, and defeat them, In the second, Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac call Tarver, who was Lee’s old captain, to come to Avon, then Tarver Holo-calls Lilac Laroux, his fiance, to get advice on how to defeat the whispers on Avon, and they find out the whispers were taken to three different planets, Verona, Avon, and Corinth. In the third, Sophia Quinn, and Gideon (?) meet with Lilac, Tarver, Lee, and Fynn, Sophia's old village friend, and take down Roderick Laroux in one epic finale.
Characters
Jubilee chase
Captain Jubilee chase. Grew up on Verona, around the time the rebel attacks were at their worst, her parents were killed by husks, people whose minds had been taken over by whispers, then she dedicated her life to defeating the rebels.
Flynn Cormac
Flynn Cormac, younger brother of Orla Cormac, who was the first leader of the Fianna rebellion, Flynn is now the leader, it’s in his blood, yet he is a pacifist. He kidnaps Jubilee Chase, then he helps her find out how to defeat the whispers who are corrupting the minds of soldiers and giving them the fury.
My Response… Continued!
I would totally recommend this book. The storyline and connections will make you gasp over and over again at every twist and turn in the plot.
Rating- 10/10
