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★★★★☆ 3.89 • Goodreads

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  • Star-Crossed Lovers
  • Planetary Mystery
  • Resourceful Protagonists
  • Interstellar Survival
  • Unexpected Alliances
  • Cosmic Secrets
  • Young Heroes
  • Exploration Thrills

Loved Have Space Suit—Will Travel for ingenious survival and slide-rule grit? Keep that momentum alive with These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Stranded duo engineers survival w/ zero resources
  • Golden-age optimism meets star-crossed tension
  • Planetary mystery unravels through clever problem-solving
  • Fast-paced exploration—no introspective slowdowns

If you thrilled to Kip's slide-rule heroics and jury-rigged survival tactics, These Broken Stars delivers that same ingenious problem-solving against impossible cosmic odds—two stranded survivors engineering their way off a hostile planet with nothing but grit, technical savvy, and the kind of can-do optimism that defined the golden age of space adventure.

...engineering their way off a hostile planet with nothing but grit...

Here's the pulse-pounding exploration you crave: no introspective detours, just fast-moving survival thrills where resourceful young heroes outwit alien mysteries through sheer human exceptionalism and unambiguous courage.

Two strangers, one crashed starship, and a planet full of secrets waiting to be conquered.

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What Readers Are Saying

"The way Lilac and Tarver interact is perfect. The prose is gorgeous. The world building is immense and believable." Christina (Ensconced in Lit), Goodreads
"This was such an unusual & original story! The world building is awesome, the action is trilling, the characters are strong and determined, the turnarounds made me tear a bit and the ending left me full of hope." Ari, Goodreads
"This book is everything that makes me keep coming back to the YA category." — Navessa, Goodreads

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