Melissa Landers - Starflight

How I got a hold on the Starflight

I just felt like going on an imaginary space journey. That's all.

Going on a bumpy Milkyway

The fairytale of the young rich ball-gowned heir of a space empire and the tacky-yet-handsome felon takes a right-about turn and we're sailing on uncharted waters.
Am I a horrible human being if I say I didn't mind watching Doran as Demarkus beat the hell out of him? It is the very first I don't get along with the male character. In other cases I'm drooling all over them. In this case I'd rather spit him straightforward in the face. Gotcha!

Solara, on the other hand, can take her destiny in her own hands and not afraid of having the most arrogant, egoist, obnoxious, self-centered, careless, greedy (I let you look up all the words that describe a playboy) golden boy on toast. Well done little girl! It's good to have a female mechanic in the first row of male sexists. I can't detect any trace of damsel-in-distress. Do you?

Although they stated off on the wrong foot, it doesn't mean they can't turn over a new leaf. Absolutely not insta-love. But I wonder how much of this pure hatred can be transformed into a throbbing, smoldering, all-consuming love. I'd better not think about it too hard. The bottom of it they happen to be on board of a more than well-functioning ship. Who thought they had so much in common? I should add, that close-knit shuttle has something to do with the imminent sense of attraction. I am just saying...

There may have been some moments when I wished they were better off on separate paths. But all that running-away from the common enemy helped to boost the sparks between them and there was no turning back. Unless they would have fallen into a black hole...

Twinkling stars of the Starflight

—After the stuck-up fellon stopped eating exotics from the golden plate, Doran turned out to be a decent working mule.
—The thrilling manhunt across the galaxy.
—The makeshift mob of a "bespectacled kleptomaniac, a star-crossed seducer and his displaced princess, and an infuriating blue blood". Quite a golden team.
—Most importantly, the big Doran-smack-up. That's the climax of the entire story. I'm hoping in a great come-back.

And some shooting stars...

It's too soap opera for my taste with its resurrected twin-brother and all of it predictability, which took much from the stir-up. I don't go for cheap thrills.

P.S.
Although I'm not a fan of four-wall living space, it's pretty amazing traveling with the light speed of intergalactic imagination. I love space. Possibly I won't be the first to get married on the Moon but I'd love to circle around Neptune and Saturn just for fun.

"She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars."

How I feel after reading

On the fence.

Rating

3 out of 5

Songs

Coldplay - Sky full of stars