Cara DeLyon is ordinary. She has an ordinary telemarketing job in New York, a boyfriend, apartment, bestie - all ordinary. When Cara is involved in a subway derailment, she becomes anything but ordinary, whisked a thousand years into the future.
Meanwhile, Nikolas Caine is the Commander of the Confederation's fleet of space warships, engaged in centuries-long battle with the Hostiles from the outer planets... and unwitting host to a woman out of time.

Set 1000 years into our future, humanity has evacuated from the environmental disaster of Earth and, over generations, plotted a course to the Theta 5 system, terraforming the planets to something habitable. The rich inner planets became home to the ruling Council and the Confederation. The less habitable outer planets became home to the Hostiles. And so begins the war of politics, race, class. Cara finds herself a pawn in this war when she just wants to go home.

I love a good time travel story. Cut Her Out In Little Stars has everything - time travel, culture shock, a space war, espionage, racism, politics, romance, a humorous sidekick, double crossing, extraordnary powers and much more. A little bit Star Trek, a little bit Firefly, and a whole lot of its own worldbuilding.

The characters were engaging, it a little stereotypical (Caine was the stereotypical "strong-silent-conflicted-marked-for-greatness" type while Cara was the "everywoman-turned-heroic-stronger-than-she-knows Mary-Sue" and Than the :shoulder-to-cry-on-and-crack-a-joke-bestie"), and I was left guessing until the end who the mole was. The romance was fade-to-black hints rather than explicit details, and the action scenes were fast paced and well written.

This is something I could easily see adapted for the screen.

It ended in a cliffhanger, and I look forward to reading the sequel to find out what happens next.

~Many thnks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ~

I received an advanced reader's copy of Cut Her Out In Little Stars by Daniele Kasper from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Daniele Kasper was a new author to me and a nice find (will definitely look for other novels by this author).

Overall, I enjoyed this novel. The main characters were an entertaining pair and secondary characters were well developed. I liked the characters’ banter, chemistry, and story arc. The novel was well written and the plot was engaging, if a bit predictable.