Cleo is an illegal hitcher on a United Nations base attempting to dodge loan sharks who are after her to pay for her late fathers exorbitant medical bills, Hunter is the rich handsome son of the billionaire capitalists who are colonising space for themselves. Both get trapped on the base when an emergency evacuation happens and their unregistered status means there's no escape pod for them. Soon they realise the evacuation was staged by a criminal faction whose up to god knows what and all Cleo and Hunter have to help them survive is each other.

This was such a fun easy read! Pretty much the only sci-fi books I read are Amie's (and Jay's) and I always enjoy them so much, every time I vow to read more sci-fi after and then never do lol.

Really easy to get into, some fantastic age appropriate commentary on capitalism, class inequality, corrupt corporations etc plus a cute little romance on the side!

Thank you to Allen & Unwin and Netgalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review!

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📚 Red Star Rebels
✒️ Amie Kaufman
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Thank you to Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

IT WAS SO GOOD TO GO BCK TO SPACE!

I missed the big YA space exploration novels of my youth, and reading Red Star Rebels just reminded me of how timeless it is.

We meet Hunter, spaces richest boy, and our stowaway Cleo as they have 8hrs to escape or 8hrs to fall in love?

This book is such a fun and quick read, I smashed it out in 3hrs and enjoyed every minute of it. Our characters are easy to like and you do really feel that timer ticking down as you read!

It is a bit predictable but that is expected with all that needs to be crammed in the pages. I do think it being a bit longer would have helped.

What happens when Die Hard meets The Martian and you throw in two seventeen year olds from opposite sides of society? Well you get this fast paced YA sci-fi book with a side of romance.
This book is go, go, go. Mars has been inhabited by humans and corporations for a few decades when Cleo becomes a stowaway and an illegal immigrant at the UN’s station, Pax. On the day that rich boy Hunter arrives at Pax, at an alarm goes off starting the evacuation of Pax Station. In an unlikely turn of events, Cleo and Hunter are the only two humans left alone on Pax as a countdown begins….or so they think.
I enjoyed the pace of this book (would make a great movie!) and getting to know both Cleo and Hunter, both with their own flaws but who you come to love.