Review: Stars Across Time

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Air Force pilot Andromeda “Andie” Kim dreams of being chosen to join NASA so she can go to space. Instead, she’s stolen by savage kidnappers from a dystopian future where fertile women are needed for breeding purposes. One of her kidnappers, a man named Mace, goes out of his way to protect her from the other slavers, but she’s not about to trust him. All she wants is to escape and find a way back to her time before she's sold as broodstock and stuck in this ruined world forever. 

Colonel Aloysius “Mace” Theron of the Cascadian Alliance is a battlefield commander, not a spy, but after twenty years of service, he’s also trusted by his superiors. That’s why they choose him for a top-secret mission: to infiltrate an organization of thieves using a time machine to plunder the past. He’s supposed to find and destroy the machine, not fall in love with one of the captives, but Andie is as much of a fighter as he is, and he’s drawn to her from the beginning. Yet if he fights too hard to protect her, his identity will be discovered and his mission will fail, leaving criminals to terrorize the past, perhaps irrevocably changing history and endangering everyone he knows and loves.

Genre: time travel romance

Publication date: March 2015

Mature content: yes

Review: Stars Across Time did not end up to be exactly what I initially expected. It's actually more a time travel story than science fiction, and there's not much about "stars" in the story other than a mutual interest of both main characters in space exploration. 

The plot in itself is not bad, although there are a few holes here and there and issues that deserved better follow up. I kind of liked the fact that the author did not describe Earth's future as more technologically advanced and brighter than the present. Somehow most science fiction books seem to do so, and this one is refreshing it that sense - maybe a bit more depressing, but also a call to action, telling us that if we keep on depleting the planet's resources as we are doing today, the future can actually be much, much worse.

 

 

 

The only thing that really irked me was the ending. I expected a bit more closure for Andie and Theron's relationship, a certainty that they would be together forever in the end. Instead, I get the feeling that somehow there should be a second book telling us what happened after Theron's return to the "past".

 

But all in all, if you love the genre, Stars Across Time will still account for a few well spent hours.

 

Happy readings,

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