*Read for the 2016 reading challenge: a romance set in the future* 
 4.5 stars 
 I really enjoyed reading this, it was so hard to put down. Unfortunately, I had a lot of (school)work to do, so I had to put it down a lot and read it sort of per chapter. I got a lot of 'Lost' vibes from this story. There are so many strange and mysterious things going on, just as in the Lost TV show. I've read some reviews of people who disliked one of the main characters, Lilac. Personally, I enjoyed reading from both character's points of view. Yes, Lilac can be a bit annoying in the beginning, but she just gets more and more interesting. The structure of the storytelling, of two alternating POV's, worked well. I'm not that big a fan of romance but I found the love story in this novel quite engaging. I'm not sure yet how I feel about the rest of the series, considering that this is a series of companion novels, centering around different main characters. If I'm allowed to make a comparison to the Lunar Chronicles, I do enjoy the set-up of that series. In the Lunar Chronicles, the main characters of a book also show up in the subsequent novels. I'm not sure if the Starbound trilogy has this same set-up, or whether there are just different characters in each book.