A Sea of Stars

What I felt about this book can be mostly summed up in a shrug. It was an interesting idea and very original, but I thought that a whole lot more could have been done with it. Not only that, but I was never drawn into the atmosphere of the book like some readers were. Mac was a fine protagonist, and I understood why she was disconnected emotionally, unfortunately I was mostly disconnected from her. I empathized with her over the death of her younger brother and, I'm gonna be honest, if that plot point hadn't been in the book, I probably would have given up.

I was so freaking psyched when I read the description and there was no mention of a love interest. YES. FINALLY. HALLELUJAH.

Yeah, there wasn't a love interest. There's a love triangle. Lucky me. *cries eternally* Just say that in the description. Please don't rope me in and get me all excited by waiting to introduce said love interests until Chapter 4. Because until then, I will have thought it'll just Mac, solving mysteries and kicking butt. You can appease me by giving me (well, not me personally...) love interests that I can really get behind, wish them all the best, and understand why Mac is attracted to them. Yes, well, I said you could appease me...
Wes was a decent guy. I mean, he wore guyliner, but we can't all be perfect. And he was snarky, almost weirdly so, and he had a cousin WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN UTILIZED, but I liked him well enough. Owen though. Even before we realize that he is the baddie, he rubbed me the wrong way and I couldn't understand why Mac was going around kissing a BLOODY HISTORY. A SHELL FULL OF MEMORIES. HE'S NOT ALIVE. HE'S ACTUALLY DEAD. But then he had come back and didn't go insane. But he's still a shell. Did I mention he's also dead?

To be frank, I just didn't care enough to want to try Book 2, where she is at a preppy boarding school, by the way. (As if we needed more preppy boarding school books.)

Also, I was so confused for a while. You see, "Da" was her grandfather, so far as I could make out. But then "Dad" was her actual father and it took me a bit to figure out who was who and whether "Dad" was a step-father or not...That could have been clarified a lot earlier.