Interests have changed - no longer going to review this book as its bo my cup of tea any longer - sorry

I really wanted to love this, but it fell flat. A lack of world building, focus and emotion made it hard to get through.

Oh man, what a thrilling ride of a book. The royal politics are juicy and there's a ship that I absolutely ship. The writing, however, takes getting used to. I'm still not sure about it.

All in all, a solid start to a series.

Good sci-fi world, building from book 1. Great characters: Kit was dynamic, troubled and good hearted. Niles kind, resourceful and surprising. Great plot full of twists just finished with a lack of resolution. I like my plots all wrapped up! Overall good underrated duology

I'm not gonna lie, I'm a total mood reader. It's taken me a while to get back into the groove of wanting to read Science Fiction novels. 

I have high hopes for Inherit the Stars. I imagined that this novel would be action packed with a bit of romance. 

What I liked about Inherit the Stars was that the book starts in the middle of an action packed scene. I love it when books get right into it. Some books just need to start really quickly, and I'm glad that Inherit the Stars fit that bill. 

Asa is desparate to save her sister, and will do anything to make sure her oldest sister lives. So I like the fact that Asa took fate into her own hands and did what she had to do. Even if it meant offering herself on a royal platter (though it didn't quite come to that).

Could have had more oomph to the story, but, I'm happy with what I read, and I genuinely enjoyed the fact that the pace of the story is a fast one. 

There are some moments in the book where the story stops and another begins and we dont even know when that happens. Which can tick some people off, and it took some getting used to. Honestly, if anything, the scene skipping only made me pay more attention to the novels story. 

A big part of Inherit the Stars is low-key also about the relationship that Asa has with her father. He disregards her in every way. I don't relish that kind of father-daughter relationship. However, I want to believe that by the very end, he kind of does good. 

I enjoyed reading Inherit the Stars. Not everything that I had envisioned for this novel came into play, but that's 100% okay. I'm satisfied with the ending that Asa and the rest of the characters had.

This is entirely too melodramatic from the first pages for me to read.

Interesting, character driven sci-fi! Loved it. I will read more from this writer going forward.

Inherit The Stars is the first book in a duology by the same title. It has some problems, sure, but after reading the negative reviews, I was bracing myself for much worse. 

Asa, as youngest daughter of a great House, pretends to be her older sister and gets married to the Heir of another great House. All of this is rather impulsive, which really characterizes Asa. She's not likeable and difficult to feel any kind of sympathy for. The romance I think, will not surprise anyone. However, besides these things it was a rather fast and nice read. Since I already have the second book in the duology, I will be reading it some time.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

My review: The premise was good but there just wasn’t enough world-building or characterization to flesh everything out enough. Because I didn’t feel invested in the setting, I found I didn’t really care about the characters. Asa’s dialogue was hard to read because she was always being interrupted, and I didn’t really get a sense of the depth of feeling she and Eagle professed to each other at the end. Also, may I say that cover makes me think of a school trip to a planetarium. She looks like she has a backpack on, but I think it’s just a stripe on her dress. Anyway, this was just okay. I don’t feel a great need to read the sequel.

***Disclaimer: This e-ARC was provided to me by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Huge thanks to them. ***

My rating: 3/5

This was enticing but lacked emotion, direction and transition.

Asa's experiences felt emotionless even though the book is in the first person POV. It's written based on basic descriptions and facts. 

"I stretch then raise my hand fast because this time I'm going to knock. I've been summoned, and I am here.
My fist finds wood."

See what I mean? It's pretty much like that throughout the whole book. This. That. But where's the emotion, what was Asa feeling as she knocked? I think the author was trying to convey emotions through actions and thoughts but they fell short and monotone instead. Asa is as emotional as Plank from Ed, Edd n Eddy, really.

It seemed like the book had no direction. In the first half, nothing relevant has happened except for well, the wedding. Events were occurring just because. 

The story was also hard to follow as it lacked BIG TIME in transition. One moment we have Asa in Malsa, her home planet, then the next moment like in a flip of a page, she's in another planet. One moment Asa is with her father and then suddenly she's with Eagle. Stuff like that is the norm for this book. It was really confusing and hard for my brain to register what was happening. 
  
What kept me reading was Asa's kindness and her fierce protectiveness over Wren and Eagle. Undying love and devotion never fails to create an innately good character. The world set in three houses who each ruled their own planetary system was also a main capturing factor for me. It's definitely not unique, having species from different planets pitted against each other but anything about space fascinates me.

I never had a chance to review this before it expired. I'm sorry!

Sorry, requested but didn't have time to read.________________________________________________________

From the beginning pages, I knew this book was gonna have some major issues that people were not gonna like. When you write a book like this, I think it's really important for readers to at least partially understand how the world functions, the time period, or even how the world looks. 

We got none of that in this book.

So intially, I just kind of ignored it and was hoping for the best and kind of filling in the huge blanks that were left in the plot and focused on the romance. I liked where the romance was heading and I liked both of the main characters, so I hoped that would make this a worthwhile read.

...But no.

Eagle is the soft-spoken, brooding, tough guy who has obviously seen and been through a lot- which people clearly don't see or respect. Asa, has a louder, more energetic personality and is extremely loyal to those who are good to her. 

Together, I think Asa could've helped him open up and find happiness again instead of shutting everyone in his life out and in return, he could've helped save her world and given her that peace and reassurance that no one else seemed to give her. 

...But that didn't happen. Instead it was just "love" without really knowing each other or even talking that much at all. 

I think if the author helped explain the world and the situations taking place better, than I would've pieced together a lot more and maybe tried to focus more on the actual storyline rather than the characters. As for the characters, I think if we saw more development in them and interaction with each other, the romance could've been phenomenal.