"For a moment the image before us is frozen: our world, our lives, reduced to a handful broken stars half lost in uncharted space. Then it's gone, the view swallowed by the hyperspace winds streaming past, blue-green auroras wiping the after-images away. 
 Until all that's left is us" 
 Complete Five Stars!! *applause* 
 "Why?" you ask. 
 "And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile. 
 Here's why: 
 FIRST: It is a pure original. It was NOT a book with a plot mashed from other stories. It was true and unique to its very core. It felt different to read, unlike so many others which I have read before. And the twists? Oh God!! They'll pop anyone's eyes right out. I have to say, that Amie and Maegan mastered the art of making their readers sit and turn page after page and read obediently. A total page turner. It is a story of survival after a shipwreck. But it is not just a lame story telling us how to light a fire and how to find food in a isolated island, it has much more to it. A sci-fi filled with Romance, Suspense, Mystery. When I started reading it I thought it would be a story where a rich girl falls in love with a soldier boy and the mean father tries to break them apart. Believe me, I know these types of plots by heart, I have seen it too many times in cinemas. But I was shocked, terribly might I add. It was nothing like it. I was so puzzled all the time trying to figure out what would happen but each time, she drove her story in the complete opposite of what I had expected. 
 SECOND: No Love triangles 
 I was just too sick of them. The love triangles. They seemed to haunt me days and nights. And I am very bad at making decisions. It felt so good to break apart from the constant chain of Love Triangles and choosing between people. I have seen many people who ask for recommendations of YA books without a Triangle. This might be the very well solution to the problem. No triangles, no choosing between equally swoony characters(which is quite difficult)*A sigh of relief*. 
 THIRD: Writing style. It is terribly good. I like books which switch between POVs without making the story drag or irritably confusing. Amie has done that. She has switched the POVs back and forth from Traver and Lilian, without making it boring and pathetic. I think I like you Amie and Spooner. Just let me give you an idea of this book, here Lilac LaRoux the haughty daughter of a powerful father suddenly finds herself in a deserted island ,after the shipwreck, with no other survivor other than the soldier Traver and possibly no way of communicating with others. 
 "Where will I sit?" Sit? Why, on this comfortable chaise longue I've carried here for you in my pocket, Your Highness, so glad you asked. I clamp my mouth shut, struggling not to say it aloud." 
 "Lilac Rose LaRoux. Untouchable. Toxic. I should've been named Ivy, or Foxglove, or Belladonna." 
 She knows, she has to find a way back to her father. She knows she can't befriend Traver, for his safety. Traver wants to go back to his parents. But for that, they need to work together. Now, they both come across terrible happenings in that terrain. Why the terrain is well maintained if not a living soul lives there. Why Lilian is listening unheard voices and seeing things? Is she going bad? Why Traver sees his home in the barren land? What is this power, who are they? What they'll do to survive? 
 FOURTH: Everything is realistic and can be related to. The story evolves beautifully without any kind of clutter. And supposedly the authors have done their homeworks and researched all the way back. Because every tidbit of Science was crystal clear to me.I want them as my Science teachers.The characterization is flawless, not a hinge of uncertainty between the characters. It seemed real, it felt real. The characters etched themselves on my mind, on my heart, every cell of my body was begging to get a happy ending. The two were broken but when they are together they started healing each other making the other one better from what they had been the last day. I was MIND BLOWN even before finishing 50% of the book. The twists in the book just gave a mental kick to me and my poor heart. I literally had to close the book for an hour and process what actually happened. After opening the book again I couldn't bring myself from stop reading it. It was that powerful and had such a great impact on the story and more importantly, Me! 
 It is a pure gem, it shines in my bookshelf. It has everything a sci-fi should have. A new world, a new adventure. And a completely out-of-the-box story with its unique turnarounds and endings. 
 P.S. Don't get distracted by the cover, this girl is not a whinny cry baby in a gown. It's just for a few pages. Everything changes after that. Now, off you go to grab this book and let me stay alone daydreaming about space and Lilac and Traver and Icarus and rant why the sequel is not about Traver and Lilac!! *stares dazedly at the wall and daydreams*