Book Hype hosts Jen, Karen, Kyle, Marama, and Michal join together to talk about These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.

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What are we reading?
–Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam
–Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
–Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh
–Insurgent by Veronica Roth
–Wildwood by Colin Meloy
–The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
–The Unbound by Victoria Schwab
–The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
–This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales
–An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
–Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
–John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Me by Tony Barrow
–More Than This by Patrick Ness
–The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler
–The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness

What series did we first get hooked on?
-Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
-Everworld by K.A. Applegate
-Babysitter’s Club by Ann M. Martin
-Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal
-Young Jedi Apprentice by Dave Wolverton/Jude Watson
-Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
-His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
-Wind on Fire by William Nicholson
-The Mortal Engines by Philip Reeves

Our Initial Reaction to These Broken Stars
-Buy or borrow?
-What did we think about the book as a whole?
-How was the romance?
-Is the fact that this won’t have a true sequel good or bad?

The Characters
-What did we think about Lilac?
-What effects did Lilac’s father’s motivations have our opinions?
-Was Tarver as layered as Lilac?
-When did Tarver have the most emotional scenes?

The Story Arc
-Do not name your starship Icarus.
-Did Lilac’s father name the ship Icarus on purpose?
-Will we get more answers in the sequel?
-What did we think the mirror-moon’s purpose was at first?
-How did they really know they were alone on the planet?
-Do we know what the old guy who was talking to Lilac in the beginning of the book wanted?
-What did we think about the “aliens”?
-Will we learn more about Lilac’s anomalies?
-Do we know how Lilac came back to life and then became real again?
-Basically, we just want more information.
-What did we think about the snippets of interview between each chapter?
-Did we want them to explore Icarus more?

Sequel
-Will the aliens make a reappearance?
-What will the connection be to Lilac and Tarver?
-Will the romance be repetitive?
-Are we looking forward to the sequel?

TV Show
-Is there something out there like this already?
-Would we watch this?
-Would this work as a TV show?
-How could they expand the universe?

Feedback
-Was the planet that Lilac and Tarver were on actually Earth?
-Were the aliens just remnants of original Earthlings?
-Was the cat actually not real?
-Did we guess the password was going to be Lilac?
-Did Lilac handle her father too easily?
-We REALLY want to see these characters again.

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