Rating: 2.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 Tarver and Lilac are so vastly different that it's a wonder they could ever manage to get along. In fact, for a while they don't. Tarver is a highly decorated war hero, a Major in the army. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe, and nobody would dare mess with her and risk the wrath of her father. Both are aboard the ship Icarus, which is travelling through space. Tarver and Lilac first meet there, but before long the ship begins to be pulled out of hyperspace. By some stroke of luck, Tarver is able to save Lilac from the stampede of the crowd, and they end up in an escape pod together, shooting down to a planet that is terraformed but seemingly uninhabited. Tarver and Lilac must learn to survive together, and find some way to get rescued. 
 I've been eyeing the book for a while, and I've finally decided it was time to read it. I haven't touched any sci-fi in a while so I had a good time with this. While it definitely wasn't the best sci-fi I've ever read, I did enjoy it once I got past the first 50 pages. The first bit of the book was kind of a drag because Lilac appears to be extremely stuck up and puts off a holier-than-thou vibe which I found pretty annoying, and if I were Tarver I probably would've been much more compelled to ditch her. Tarver was an interesting character, and I found his perspective to be more interesting. I particularly enjoyed his backstory and how it played into how he acts now. Thankfully Lilac becomes much less annoying towards the middle of the book, although I found the book to lag sometime in the middle as well. 
 Plotwise, it was very slow. We get little hints of things here and there but we have to wait until almost the very end until everything comes together in a way that makes sense. However, I did find the whole thing (view spoiler)[ with the rift (hide spoiler)] to be confusing and I'm still not sure I fully grasp what happened, and I found that to be disappointing because that was pretty much all the excitement. One of the most interesting parts of the book were the interrogation pieces between chapters, which are quotes from the debriefing Tarver receives when he is interrogated once they get off the planet. When the book was being slow and dull those pieces between chapters are what kept me reading. 
 Overall, although this book had a very slow pace, I ended up enjoying it. I do wish that I understood what happened at the end better, but I feel that part of the reason I was confused was because up to that point I was extremely bored so I'm not sure I was absorbing everything I was reading once I got there. Lilac started off as an annoying character but got better as the book went on, however I preferred Tarver as a character more than Lilac. While both had their strengths, I admired his resilience and his ability to not slap Lilac across the face when she was being rude and uptight. I'd recommend this to you if you're into sci-fi, but be prepared to hate Lilac for a while and be bored in some spots.