From the Bookshelf of 2015 Reading Challenge [Closed]…

For Darkness Shows the Stars (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #1)

Diana Peterfreund

Discussion: . Week 2: Romance

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 108 topics — 841 comments total

. Week 2: Romance

* Week 2: Introduction
By Jessica · 43 posts · 618 views

last updated Feb 03, 2015 01:13PM

* Week 2: Progress Post
By Jessica · 54 posts · 221 views

last updated Dec 30, 2015 12:26PM

showing 2 of 2 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Sep 24, 2012 Ashley rated it it was ok

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.

Like · see review

Jun 19, 2012 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: almost-read, science-fiction, young-adult, dystopia

It's funny, but if I hadn't read on John Scalzi's blog that this book was a retelling of Austen, I never would have realized. I've never read the particular Austen novel it is based on (Persuasion) but I'm not an enormous Austen fan. It doesn't read like a comedy of manners the way that Austen retellings generally do.

This is the story of Elliot, the default overseer of a large farm. In the world of the book, humans in the past experimented on their DNA. As a result, they had children called The ...more

Like · see review

May 08, 2015 Stephanie rated it really liked it

I had no idea what this book was about when I picked it up, and I was a little like "eh what is this" when I started. But I was pleasantly surprised. I enjoyed this book quite a bit. I liked the characters if Elliot and Kai a lot, and I really liked that it was a love story without all the gooey crap, because there was a lot more going on than just the love. The background of the Luddite/Reduced world was interesting, without being too discussed, and the plot was complex but simply displayed. A ...more

Like · see review