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As soon as I finished This Shattered World, I moved on to finish reading the Starbound series with Their Fractured Light. Each book in the set features a different couple, every time young people who are very different from each other and who have every reason not to like or trust each other (but who have to admit they feel an attraction, too). In this book, characters who were introduced, at least briefly, in the previous book become the narrators.
Gideon Marchant is a talented computer hacker who stayed busy working for all kinds of clients in many places. He’s settled on the planet of Corinth, which is essentially one big city. Sofia Quinn has landed there after leaving the planet of Avon a year earlier. Sofia’s skilled at conning anyone. She can play a role that will fit any situation, if it gets her what she wants.
Back on Avon, Sofia’s childhood friend Flynn Cormac made a broadcast to the rest of the galaxy exposing LaRoux Industries for conducting dangerous, secret research on the planet.
Unfortunately, the broadcast didn’t convince a lot of people or make a big difference in the problem itself. Danger is lurking and is about to threaten the whole galaxy. Sofia and Gideon are both trying to stop it, but they have different plans for achieving their goals.
When a security breach at LaRoux headquarters interrupts both of their attempts to infiltrate the company and do what they had hoped to do, they work together to escape. And then they reluctantly partner up to expose the company’s horrible secret.
This book gathers together the main characters from the previous two books — Tarver and Lilac, Flynn and Jubilee —with Gideon and Sofia on Corinth. They eventually get to join forces to fight the encroaching threat to humanity. And, of course, these young adults have it in them to win.
I enjoyed this young adult science fiction series, now that I’ve read it all! But I think I still prefer some of the authors’ later writing, especially the Unearthed two-book series, and the really fun and often snarky collaborations of Kaufman with Jay Kristoff, particularly the Illuminae Files.
Rated: Moderate. Profanity includes fewer than 10 instances of moderate language, 65 uses of mild language, and about 30 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Violence is fairly frequent: it includes fighting, injuries, and mass deaths. There are some brief gory details and mentions of blood throughout. Sexual content includes kissing and alluding to sex taking place, though without any details and completely “off-screen.”
