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The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne
1.0
I hate this title because it steals a lyric from a song from The Greatest Showman and yet isn't related at all. It's like they (they being the author and / or the publisher) heard the song and was like, shit that's good I take.
The Stars We Steal is about Princess Leo, heir to a European spaceship that is looking for a husband. As Leo navigates the Valg season looking for the best bachelor, her ex shows up. Elliot was the one that got away and is now the catch of the season.
I mean, kind of my bad because I loved the cover (and thought the last book by this author was okay enough) but I had no idea what this book was even about?? I thought it would be much more spacey and cool but no... this is just the fucking Bachelor but with a bunch of whiny teenagers iN SpAcE. I really need to avoid The Bachelor meets literally anything else because it is a recipe for disaster. This isn't [b:The Selection|10507293|The Selection (The Selection, #1)|Kiera Cass|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1322103400l/10507293._SY75_.jpg|15413183] and this isn't 2012 pls stop.
Leo and the rest of the characters are seriously so annoying. This entire book was annoying and was just talk about stuff instead of actually seeing it and wow that was boring. Instead of being entertaining trash it was just straight trash that was annoying instead of being hilarious to read. Leo is a privileged brat who is extremely immature (and not funny at all despite the quips she loved) and someone should have yeeted her into space. The romance sucked too and we love a pointless love triangle.
Speaking of space wtf this sucks. The spaceships and everything else about it was just a ~cool background~ for this basic ass trash romance, drama, and nothing else. It's so embarrassing and didn't save this book from being a complete waste of time. People living in spaceships colonies because Earth is dead is interesting but the author didn't do a damn thing to explore that or make it important to anything. Literally just watch Wall-E instead and your life will be better.
I hate it very much thank you.
The Stars We Steal is about Princess Leo, heir to a European spaceship that is looking for a husband. As Leo navigates the Valg season looking for the best bachelor, her ex shows up. Elliot was the one that got away and is now the catch of the season.
I mean, kind of my bad because I loved the cover (and thought the last book by this author was okay enough) but I had no idea what this book was even about?? I thought it would be much more spacey and cool but no... this is just the fucking Bachelor but with a bunch of whiny teenagers iN SpAcE. I really need to avoid The Bachelor meets literally anything else because it is a recipe for disaster. This isn't [b:The Selection|10507293|The Selection (The Selection, #1)|Kiera Cass|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1322103400l/10507293._SY75_.jpg|15413183] and this isn't 2012 pls stop.
Leo and the rest of the characters are seriously so annoying. This entire book was annoying and was just talk about stuff instead of actually seeing it and wow that was boring. Instead of being entertaining trash it was just straight trash that was annoying instead of being hilarious to read. Leo is a privileged brat who is extremely immature (and not funny at all despite the quips she loved) and someone should have yeeted her into space. The romance sucked too and we love a pointless love triangle.
Speaking of space wtf this sucks. The spaceships and everything else about it was just a ~cool background~ for this basic ass trash romance, drama, and nothing else. It's so embarrassing and didn't save this book from being a complete waste of time. People living in spaceships colonies because Earth is dead is interesting but the author didn't do a damn thing to explore that or make it important to anything. Literally just watch Wall-E instead and your life will be better.
I hate it very much thank you.