LitPick Review
Our Dark Stars is about two main characters, Will and Talia. Talia has been asleep for a hundred years unaware that mocks (man made robots) have taken over the galaxy and enslaved humans, after a catastrophe involving her best friend. Will finds Talia and tries to uncover her true identity. In the end, Will decides against turning Talia over to the Queen, giving his own life for hers, and it’s up to Talia to save him.
Opinion:
I would classify this book as a Sci-Fi Romance, and I think the main purpose of this book is just simply to entertain and stretch your imagination.
There are some very interesting settings in this book. Most of them are well described. You can really see these places in your mind. Some are less well described and some are described too much and your brain overloads with information.
The main characters in this book are Will, the former captain of a federation ship, Talia, the last of the Starchaser line, Leo, a handsome gay shiphand, Lux, the navigator with an attitude, Dorian, the ship’s mechanic, and Jane, a very old and glitchy mock.
I personally disliked both main characters and that made it very hard to finish the book. I still like the story but it was not as fun as it could have been.
I love the story of this book, but it was often hard to read. Sometimes a line that should have been in the last paragraph got it’s own paragraph. As I was reading, I caught one or two words that did not meet the context around it, and you can tell which word they meant to insert.
I don’t think there is really any moral to this story, as I said up above, I believe it is mostly to entertain.
At parts in the book they compare buildings and other things to how they were a hundred years ago, but they don’t really give enough information about how it used to be in order to compare and contrast accurately.
When I was requesting a book to review, the age on this book said 12 and up. I don’t think this is accurate. As I said before, I really liked the story, but overall, I did not like the book. There was a lot of very forced bad language. There was a lot of suggestive jokes and description and there was a small amount of explicit homosexuality. If I had kids, I would not let them read this until they were at least 14.
A great strength of this book was the backstory, explained fully at the end. I was watching for it, but even then, I still didn’t catch any inconsistencies or plot holes, and I was very impressed with that.
I think the ending was very good and well written. I think this book is good by itself and should not have a sequel, and that is why the ending worked so beautifully.
Overall, if I could take out the language and the sexuality, I would read this book over and over again. Everyone who is interested in this genre of books should try it at least once.
