Spinning Starlight by R.C. Lewis - Restarting January 25th 2016

[Sarah Elizabeth]

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.

[Rachel]

I'm a little behind but I'll be starting tonight or tomorrow :)

[Tati]

Melanie and I will be reading this on September 14! Feel free to join!

(Could one of the mods please change the thread?)

[Melanie]

Excited to start this. Have you read the author's previous book, Stitching Snow?

[Tati]

I have! And I really enjoyed it!

[Abi]

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Reading from the 25th of January 2016

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[Tati]

Turns out my ARC has awful formatting, and Amazon doesn't sell the Kindle version in Brazil, so I don't know if I'll be able to read it...

[Melanie]

Was your ARC from NetGalley?

[Tati]

yep

[Melanie]

That's where I got my copy too. Hope I'll be able to read it. :/

[Melanie]

My copy isn't bad at all!

18%

(view spoiler)[This is so bizarre. Not sure how I feel about it right now... (hide spoiler)]

[Melanie]

34%

(view spoiler)[Nice of him to teach her to write/spell words, so she's able to speak without using her voice. (hide spoiler)]

[Melanie]

58% done

(view spoiler)[Finding this very confusing... (hide spoiler)]

[Melanie]

Done

(view spoiler)[did not care for this book. Didn't like the alien parts, the weird words, or how it was just plain confusing to read at times. Maybe if I would have read it super slow, if would have been more enjoyable?? Just not a book for me. :/ (hide spoiler)]