Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle, #1)

by Amie Kaufman

She’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering.

Yes or no

Kaliis Idraban Gilwraeth, firstson of Laeleth Iriltari Idraban Gilwraeth, adept of the Warbreed Cabal.”

Already my fav

“Your governments,” he says. “They fear the Starslayer.”

“Did it just get hot in here, or is it me?” Scarlett asks. “It’s not just you,” Finian mutters, fanning himself.

Hahahaha

Say what you will about the military, but Maker bless, they don’t teach you to think.

“For the love of…,” Scar sighs. “Will you two just kiss and get it over with?” “I mean, I could think of worse things to watch?” Finian says.

Im dying i love fin

I find myself looking at the squad around me. At these six young soldiers I’ve suddenly found myself thrown together with. The strangers my life seems to depend on now. Squad 312.

I was supposed to wake up on Octavia III with my dad, and instead I’m in hiding on a pirate space station with a messed-up eye and stupid hair and a condescending jackass.”

“They attacked Evaa. The star our homeworld of Syldra orbited.”

“But they made the Syldrathi sun collapse upon itself. Turned the star into a black hole that destroyed everything in the system.” “Ten billion Syldrathi died.”

Kal turns his head to speak to me. “Stay behind me, be’shmai.”

OMG

Both the Jones twins look completely edible, him in a stretchy show-my-muscles kind of shirt, her in an equally stretchy bodysuit made of…some kind of black…something.

I’m not entirely sure what’s going on between those two, but it’s something I have to keep a watch on.

I am not thinking about Aurora.

The sound of her name is like music. I actually feel my belly flutter, my skin prickle beneath the power armor I am wearing. I picture her eyes, pupils of bottomless black, one ringed in seventeen different shades of brown, the other encircled by a white as pale as starlight. I think of her lips, and I—

Boy got it bad i love it

I know that primal instinct has no place here and I fight it, as I have fought it since the moment I laid eyes on her in that cargo bay

“I’ve never heard of the Pull happening between a Syldrathi and a human before. Is that what’s happening here? Have you told Aurora?”

The door opens and the commtech walks right in at the precise moment Tyler’s lips land on mine.

I am cackling

because even though I followed him to the end of the Milky Way, he didn’t believe in me—in us—the way he believes in her.

Words like immunity and cooperation and capture written in bold. Words I don’t want to think about right now.

Noooooo cat you didnt

I hope it hasn’t come too late.

Oh its too late

Then again, I’m two hundred and thirty-seven years old myself. On a ship full of aliens. Who I just robbed a space station with. Nothing is impossible. But something is very, very wrong.

I can feel Aurora sitting nearby. Her presence is like the light of the sun on my skin.

Cannot think except to know that Aurora is hurt, she is unsafe, she who is my all, my everything, my—

Everything I have tried to hide is now bubbling to the surface.

But how can I describe what it is to fly to those who have never even seen the sky?

“The Pull is the bond between lifeloves,” I finally say. “Mates.”

And even with all the chaos and insanity around us, it’s so much better just being beside him. He makes me feel safe.

“Do moons choose the planets they orbit? Do planets choose their stars? Who am I to deny gravity, Aurora? When you shine brighter than any constellation in the sky?”

THE LAST ESHVAREN DIED A MILLION YEARS AGO. BUT WE KNEW THEY WOULD FIND A WAY TO STRIKE AT US FROM BEYOND THEIR WELL-DESERVED GRAVES. SOME LONG-DORMANT DEVICE HIDDEN IN THE FOLD. WAITING FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT. WAITING FOR A CATALYST. WAITING FOR HER.