Review: Shadows of Stardust

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Roslyn

I didn’t sign up for Mate Match—the universe’s favorite reality dating show—to find a guy. I’m not here for fame or fortune or love.

I’m here to find my sister.

She disappeared months ago, and after tracking her as far as the beautiful, tropical planet where Mate Match is filmed, I’m not going to let anything stop me from finding her.

Not even a huge, bad-tempered, wickedly handsome member of the show’s security team who seems to have eyes only for me.

Zandrel

I may have fallen far from my prestigious position in the universe’s most feared mercenary company, but not so far that I’ve lost the ability to spot trouble when it’s right in front of me.

Climbing my way back up the ranks means starting with this joke of an assignment, and no one’s going to stop me from regaining my honor.

Not even a human with eyes like emeralds and a fierce, defiant spirit who’s determined to undermine me at every turn.

But when a split-second decision casts us as unlikely allies, pretending to fall in love with billions of eyes across the universe watching, we may just end up being the keys to each other’s salvation.

Genre: science fiction romance

Publication date: June 2025

Mature content: yes

Review: Shadows of Stardust didn't work for me. The title and synopsis made me expect a suspense-driven sci-fi story with mystery and tension. Instead, the book turned out to be much more of a galactic alien-mates romance, full of the usual tropes.

The writing itself is perfectly ok, but unfortunately, the story never convinced me, and neither did the characters. I struggled to connect with their motivations and the central relationship, and by the halfway point I'd lost interest and decided to skip a few pages, just check the happy ending and be done with it.

Happy readings otherwise!

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