4.0
Wayward Stars
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Sing your truth. Defend your dream. Defy your stars.
A month has passed since Iris joined an underground rebel group to save Dámiul from the brutal prison he was sent to for fighting back against his world's oppressive system. Here, conformity and compliance are enforced through telepathy, and Earthling performers are brainwashed into absolute obedience.
Word of a merciless crackdown on those who sympathize with their cause leaves both Iris and Dámiul yearning for action. Determined to liberate her kind, Iris volunteers to return to her former patrons and covertly recruit supporters.
A raid on their hideout catapults her plan into action sooner than expected and forces her to leave Dámiul behind. After persuading the authorities that she'd been telepathically manipulated into helping him, Iris assumes the role of a dutiful musician while secretly spreading whispers of a possible uprising among her fellow performers. But the authorities always seem to be one step ahead, and anyone who defies them is swiftly mind-wiped.
Soon, Iris is forced to confront a horrifying fact: there's a traitor among them. Desperately clinging to her cover, she races to find out who before her true loyalties are discovered—and the search leads her to an unthinkable answer.
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4.0
“<em>Disclaimer: Thank you Mary Fan for providing me the copy in exchange for a review!</em>
Actual rating: 4.5 🌟
Wayward Stars is one of my most anticipated reads of 2019.💫 And I am SO thrilled to get the chance to read it because to be honest, I didn’t think I’d be able to read it.👀
In this story following after Starswept, Iris is back to her former patrons, the Ydayas. She is hopeful and determined to spread the words to other performers and recruit them into the Abolitionist. It isn’t as easy as she thought. Everything she does needs to be extra careful or she’ll get caught and get mind-wiped. Everything was good. 👏🏼 It was very intriguing, but I kind of have mix feelings when the story turned upside down. There have been many struggles throughout the story and there are also good fortune too. I just… really don’t know how to feel about it. 😥
When I got into Act Two which is the second part of the story, I was surprised and sad, kind of. 😰 I’m disappointed with everyone in this story. See? Everything really turned upside down. 😫 The traitor—I don’t know which character is to be blame. I know Master Verik is the monster here but… I feel all of them make mistakes even though I don’t actually see it. I just… really don’t know how to feel anymore. I don’t want it to be that way but it is that way. My heart tingled of all this. 💔 I just want to wipe all of those Adryil. Well, not Mistress Ydaya, not Atikéa, not Jaerin and certainly not Dámiul.
Personally, I think Dámiul is the most who suffered here. 😔 Even from the beginning, he was the one who really went through a lot than the others. My heart really aches for him. 💔 What happened to him and what they—the authorities—did to him is so cruel. 😡 Iris got it worse too, but Dámiul… gosh, my heart is swelling. 💔😭
Anyway, in here, we get to meet Ximena—the one who Dámiul saved at first. She has been mentioned a lot in Starswept and I didn’t even think we will see her character in here. And it’s really good to finally meet her. ✨ Ximena is an acrobatic and her personality is just same like Cara’s; brave, loud and strong-headed. 💀
In addition, I was hoping more from Mistress Ydaya but it’s still not enough for me. 😖 I really hope she will be good with the Abolitionist and maybe, just maybe, be one of them. I was happy when she defended Iris but that’s just it then. I thought I could participate in that just to burst my anticipation since I’ve planted my hope in her. But there’s no more story of that scene. 😩 Again, maybe, she could be Iris’ godmother. Girl—me can only hope for now. 😌💝
Alsoooo, I didn’t even know there is going to be another book in this series???? 😱 Like… How come I just know this?! I only know it when I was checking out the series on Goodreads and stumbled upon it. I am thrilled. 😍 Once again.
Last but not least, this is all so exciting, aching and uplifting. 💖🖤💔 From the beginning and even throughout the book. Especially the ending. Gosh, I can imagine the scene of all of them on the stage. 🔥 I got goosebumps. ✨💫 Well, my heart was surely in pain while reading this book, but it’s a good kind of pain, you know? 👀 When the author just really played your feelings into something. I love that. It succeeded. 🌟 And I can’t wait for the next book! 💃🏻”
“Once again, I need to refer how lovely are the details of the photographs in the beginning of each chapter! Throught this we can see how much work the team put in this project.
I really enjoyed being able to see more of the alien language, Adryil. Seriously, I love the fact that the author created a whole new language.
With a captivating, clear and almost poetic writing, the author transports us back to this fantastic world.
It was great to meet with these characters again. Characters that developed a lot in this book and demonstrate how strong and determined they are.
There are many catchy and interesting things in this book. However, I feel this book fell into the typical book of rebellion, you see? For example, there are many sagas in which people of a certain system discover that there are many bad things happening, in the second book begin to revolt and then in the third they solve things with a great war and everything ends well .. I am afraid that this saga is following this path already so well known to us, readers.
I really liked this book but I didn't love it as I loved Starswept... I give this book a 3,6.”
“Iris and Dámiul, the actual star-crossed lovers.
Gorgeously illustrated, the style of this book is almost an alien device itself - connecting the reader to the story simply through sensory input. Mary Fan is the conductor of a symphony of sensation.
The first act was a bit slow for me, but the rest an operatic cabaletta - building suspense.
I wish we would have heard a bit about Iris's mom, and that the story between Iris and Dámiul had progressed a bit. Something happens to each of them, but their relationship is more like buddies in this installment.
Overall I still want to know if they're ever freed. Guess we will have to wait and see in 2020!”
“*I received an advanced copy of this book from the Author in exchange for an honest review*
This story is simply beautifully written. I was a little nervous because I absolutely loved Starswept and I know sometimes sequels don't always turn out to be great but this one was just freaking fantastic!
The story picks up a month after Starswept ended, Iris and Dámiul are still on the run but they are determined to free the humans on Adryil. Iris makes the decision to go back to her sponsor and resume her position as musician all the while spreading the word about their cause. But treachery lies in every corner and Iris soon realizes that a traitor is among them whose identity is more shocking than she could have imagined.
I love Iris and Dámiul, they are so sweet together. Their relationship and what they feel for one another is written so uniquely its like reading poetry, it was simply breathtaking. It's really like nothing I've read before, it just made me feel feelings it's very hard to explain but I adore them.
The story is immersive, addictive and very unique, there is so much at stake and I was waiting for something bad to happen at every turn of the page - it kept me a state of suspense right to the end, there are just so many unexpected twists and turns. The descriptions of everything really made me feel like I was there. One scene that particularly comes to mind, is when Iris and Dámiul are on a space ship and they are passing the rings of Saturn - I could picture this so vividly it was almost like I was looking out the window with them.
I honestly couldn't have asked for a sequel, it was everything I didn't know I wanted and more. If you love Starswept this is a must read and if you haven't but love sci-fi dystopia then go read Starswept and pre-order this one!”
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