This isn't at all what I expected when I started reading These Broken Stars. Actually, I wasn't sure what I expected, but not this. Not this very real need to keep going. To see what's going to happen to these two. I've enjoyed a very small handful of sci-fi, fantasy books in my day (wow, that makes me sound like a granny). I tend to be slightly picky about what I read when I'm out of my comfort zone (historical romance, mainly) but I loved this book. I hated every distraction that kept me from finishing it in one sitting. 
 Sleep? What's that? 
 Food? NONSENSE. 
 Tarver and Lilac are two people - from different worlds. She's of the rich, posh variety - where worries are beneath her and sparkly dresses and maintaining a high profile is important. Tarver is a soldier, who knows what it's like to be at the bottom of the barrel, to survive with barely anything at hand and he knows what it's like to just live a life that isn't ideal for most folks. They're both aboard a space craft called the Icarus, owned by Lilac's father. She's royalty and he's just a passenger on the space craft, well known for his heroics in the field and not much else. 
 Their attraction to each other is instantaneous. Even though she fights it. Even though she verbally brings him down in order to keep him at arm's length. I really wish Lilac hadn't allowed society and its rules and expectations to dictate anything she did because she so clearly liked him and vice versa. Anyway, all thoughts of attraction are gone when their ship is thrown out of hyperspace and crash lands on a terraformed planet - where Lilac and Tarver are seemingly the only survivors of the aforementioned crash since their emergency pod seemed to be the only one left intact. 
 As they trek through the unfamiliar planet to get to the crash site of the Icarus, they battle elements, unknown creatures, hunger, visions, whispers, and their attraction to each other. This book was 
 amazing 
 . I have no words. Absolutely none. Absolutely flawlessly written and just -- dammit. So good.