
This Shattered World: A Starbound Novel
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Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.
Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.
Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. His sister died in the original uprising against the powerful corporate conglomerate that rules Avon with an iron fist. These corporations make their fortune by terraforming uninhabitable planets across the universe and recruiting colonists to make the planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.
Desperate for any advantage against the military occupying his home, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: He returns to base with her as prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape base together, caught between two sides in a senseless war.
- Listening Length12 hours and 42 minutes
- Audible release date23 December 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB00PURHPGA
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 12 hours and 42 minutes |
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Author | Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner |
Narrator | Callard Harris, Donnabella Mortel, Lincoln Hoppe |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 23 December 2014 |
Publisher | Listening Library |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B00PURHPGA |
Best Sellers Rank | 32,864 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 83 in Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy for Teens 88 in Science Fiction & Fantasy Romance for Teens 148 in Science Fiction Adventures for Young Adults |
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I listened to this as an audiobook.
As the book goes on, you get to see Flynn and Jubilee go from enemies to allies to friends, which I love. You get to watch the relationship between the two change and grow.
My favourite thing about Lee was her sarcasm. She had similar responses to what I might have said myself.
I cried when the explosion went off though. If you've read the book, you'll know why.
For some odd reason, I also pictured McBride as Jai Courteney who plays Eric in the Divergent movie. Couldn't tell you why, but that's how I pictured him. Maybe because they're both jerks and super mean?
"I'm the one who wants to talk to you. She's the one who wants to break your legs. Let's start with the talking."
I like how this book ties in with the first in this series, These Broken Stars, as we see a bit of Tarver and Lilac, and we also hear things from the Whispers.
Amie and Meagan do a wonderful job of writing these books together and can't wait to read the last one!
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The planet is settled by two groups: a military bunch who are off-worlders; and the 'natives' who were born on Avon from distant Irish ancestors. (Jubi)Lee is a soldier, and Flynn is a local.
Lee is very hostile to the natives as she thinks they are pointlessly violent - as she as seen on other terraformed planets - and Flynn's tribe is hostile to the military because, well, they're outsiders who don't have their interests at heart.
As the story develops, both Lee and Flynn realise that things are far less straightforward than they think and more to the point, Someone, Somewhere is manipulating them. More and more soldiers - and now natives - are succumbing to a temporary mental rage wherein they shoot people before heading east towards - well, towards what? This is the central mystery in the story.
This Shattered World, like its predecessor, is interestingly structured as its chapters are interspersed with occasional mini-chapters that are quite surreal, until you approach the end of the story and realise what they're about. The writing style is deft. I'd say, much improved on These Broken Stars, but I wouldn't like to imply that there are any deficiencies at all in the writing style and characterisation this time around, because there aren't.
Tarver and Lilac from These Broken Stars both make guest appearances in This Shattered World, but they are not central characters. This Shattered World has romance, but it is more hard-won and for that, more realistic if less romantic (despite the Romeo and Juliet references!).
My only criticism is an after-I've-read-the-book thought, and that is that we still don't know *why* the company behind the terraforming acts the way it does. They are a bit one-dimensional Uber Baddie. Whilst both books have been entertaining and vastly original in their own right, it would be good to get to the heart of the underlying problem in this fictional universe. I pondered whether this should make me knock a star off, but decided that the story flows so well even without this, that it's still a 5* recommendation to other readers.

Reading companion novels can be a daunting and scary task, especially when it’s to a book as stunning as These Broken Stars. This Shattered World was a spectacular follow-up, even if it didn’t reach the same mark as its predecessor. I loved Jubilee and Flynn, they’re both strong characters together and apart. (Even if Jubilee did take a little getting used to.) Their romance was developed slowly, with tension building over time instead of all at once. Unlike Lilac and Tarver, who were alone and free to develop their romance at their own pace, Jubilee and Flynn are enemies in a dangerous situation. They’re both leaders who owe their loyalty to their own people first, not each other, and this makes their growing feelings for each other a serious and deadly risk. I loved the two of them together and I felt that, as a team, they worked spectacularly well.
While the plot of This Shattered World didn’t blow me away quite like These Broken Stars, I still found it to be enjoyable and entertaining. Although developed slowly, the plot weaved itself into something marvellous, and the rewarding ending was worth the slightly slow beginning. The story itself felt almost like a filler novel, bridging plot points from the first book towards the final book. The conspiracy we’re introduced to in book one surrounding LaRoux Industries is finally expanded upon and we can see that it’s the undercurrent connecting all of the books in the series together.
Of course, the highlight of all of this for me was seeing Lilac and Tarver again, even if it was only briefly. (Although I did thoroughly enjoy our intergalactic star-crossed lovers!) All in all, this was an interesting and captivating read and I can’t wait to see how the series wraps up in the final instalment of the trilogy, Their Fractured Light (Starbound) .


