Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only daughter in the most powerful tech family in the galaxy, it's hard to escape it. So when a group of men show up at her house uninvited, she assumes it's just the usual media-grubs. That is, until shots are fired.
Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.
Desperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers' survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back?
Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for survival in this companion to Stitching Snow.
Title: Spinning Starlight
Author: R.C. Lewis
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
Liddi escapes, only to be pulled into an interplanetary conspiracy more complex than she ever could have imagined. Her older brothers have been caught as well, trapped in the conduits between the planets. And when their captor implants a device in Liddi's vocal cords to monitor her speech, their lives are in her hands: One word and her brothers are dead.
Desperate to save her family from a desolate future, Liddi travels to another world, where she meets the one person who might have the skills to help her bring her eight brothers home-a handsome dignitary named Tiav. But without her voice, Liddi must use every bit of her strength and wit to convince Tiav that her mission is true. With the tenuous balance of the planets deeply intertwined with her brothers' survival, just how much is Liddi willing to sacrifice to bring them back?
Haunting and mesmerizing, this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's The Wild Swans strings the heart of the classic with a stunning, imaginative world as a star-crossed family fights for survival in this companion to Stitching Snow.
Title: Spinning Starlight
Author: R.C. Lewis
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Publication Date: October 6, 2015
Brooke's Review:
I want to thank Disney Hyperion for providing me with a copy of this book to read and give an honest review. Receiving this book for free has in no way altered my opinion or review.
I really enjoyed Stitching Snow when I read it. I thought for sure this would be a spin off of that book. But it was not. Totally different characters. Completely different story.
I love anything Sci-Fi and this book completely fit that bill. I zoomed through it in no time, which means I easily loved it. This book is a fairytale retelling, though I don't know the story that goes along with it.
I really enjoyed Liddi's character. I love that she is kind of the black sheep of her family. All her brothers are super smart and have made something of themselves at an early age while she's still waiting to come into herself. Given the fact that her character does not speak for most of the book (I won't tell you why as it will be a spoiler), it was still easy to get to know her. She's very strong with a deep seeded understanding of how important family is. And her resilience is incredible.
The author throws a lot of technical terms at you at the very beginning of the book. At first, I was a bit confused, but as it went on I easily understood the jargon. I enjoyed the way she portrayed the media in this book. With all the paparazzi stuff we see in the news these days, it was easy to understand how out of control things could get if the media had even more technology on their side.
The author does an incredible job with the world buiding in this book. I love way the planets are explained, and the reason for the people living on them at this point in time. Yes, this is set way in the future, giving the book not only a sci-fi genre but also a bit of dystopian to go along with it. Though you don't see the government involvement so much with this book. It's more about how we as humans destroyed our planet and how people had to settle elsewhere.
I love the traveling between different planets that occurs in this book. Certainly I got a Lunar Chronicles feel with this book (given that is one of my favorite series, it made me extremely happy). And I love how ideas and stereotypes are completed shattered as Liddi tries her hardest to save her family.
And of course there is a forbidden love theme in the book. I loved that it existed, though it wasn't what ruled the story. It was a slow build and certainly one could see how the attraction came about.
Overall, I enjoyed this book much more than the first. Any fan of science fiction with fairy tale retellings will enjoy this story.
R.C. Lewis teaches math to teenagers—sometimes in sign language, sometimes not—so whether she’s a science geek or a bookworm depends on when you look. That may explain why her characters don’t like to be pigeonholed. Coincidentally, R.C. enjoys reading about quantum physics and the identity issues of photons.
Her debut novel Stitching Snow (2014) is a sci-fi retelling of Snow White, and her second novel Spinning Starlight (2015) is a sci-fi take on Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Wild Swans.” Both are available now from Hyperion.
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