under different stars review

this week i read a really pretty book called "under different stars" and let me tell you: that cover was not the only thing that was out of this world!

i ordered this book when i saw it on amazon and recognized the author, amy a. bartol. i read a book in her other series years ago and i remember enjoying it a lot, so i thought i'd give this one a try. and i am so happy i did!

i did not expect this book to be sooooo great! 

it starts off a bit confusingly, but is that not the case with most new books that heavy on the fantasy/sci-fi? but by the end of chapter one, i was obsessed and needed to constantly have this book in my hands. this book was addicting!

kricket hollowel, i thought her name would bother me but it didn't (and when we found out the meaning behind her name, oh gosh<3), has been on the run from social workers. she has no parents and had been in the foster care system until she ran away. when we meet her, she's a few months shy from her eighteenth birthday which means she a few months shy from f r e e d o m ! ! 

but on a train ride home, kricket is confronted by three mysterious guys (the leader of which is trey *wink wink*). he tells her that he has come to take her home where she must pay for her "crimes"! 

"You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket . . . the stars here are in opposition to you."

of course kricket is all "oh hell no!" and douches them with pepper spray like a strong, independent main character! (seriously, this scene though? soo funny!!) she is fiesty, daring and hilarious! i laughed at her comebacks and sarcastic replies.

kricket is seriously bad ass. she stone. she cannot be broken even though earth has tried to. but she is eventually kidnapped and taken to her "home" which happens to be in another freaking universe! becuase she is in fact not even human! she's from a planet called ethar! and that is her home. and even though a home is what she wants most, she isn't going to go easy. she was kidnapped after all! 

"It's done. I'm theirs. I just have to figure out how to navigate this world and you can't help me with that."

see, kricket may be in a completely new planet, alone and helpless, but she isn't going to stay that way for long. she wants her freedom. and she is willing to do it alone except that she isn't so alone anymore. not when she traveled from one planet to another with trey allairis. but wait! don't go lumping uds with many of the other ya books that have insta-love because this doesn't happen. kricket has trust issues and believes the only person she can trust is herself. (awww!) but trey, oh, trey. he knows she's special and strong and a fighter (like he) and so he ends up falling for her.

"She's in your head, Trey."

"My head, my heart, my blood," Trey responds immediately. 

sigh. i really enjoyed this book because of their slow romance. oh! and there isn't really a love triangle, even though the official summary makes it seem so. kricket likes trey. trey likes kricket. kyon is just a crazy psycho trying to marry her. ha! but i will admit that he is pretty captivating. i'm interested in seeing where his character goes in the next book!

the world of ethar is really amazing too! and there is a lot of building of it and we learn things about them. it can get a bit overwhelming, like i said, but it does make it better and realistic. i also adored jax and wayra who were secondary characters but no less charming than trey. i enjoyed every scene with them! i want more of them!

i just want more of this book, tbh. read it. i hope that you'll come love it just as much as i did!