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Starflight

Melissa Landers (2016)

SubgenreSci-Fi Romance
Age groupYA 12-17
Content ratingPG-13
Pages (Standard (250-400))
SettingSpace/Sci-Fi
CSM age13

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentMild
LanguageMild

Heroine archetypes

Working-Class HeroineOrphan

Protagonist archetypes

Fish out of Water

Synopsis

Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.

Tags

Space OperaYA Science FictionAdventure RomanceComing of Age

Is Starflight appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 13 and up.

A YA sci-fi romance with mild tension and a slow-burn relationship between former high school enemies navigating a lawless outer space realm. Features themes of class difference and redemption.

What to know going in

This book has mild violence, mild sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include abandonment and class struggle.

Who'll love this

Teens will love the enemies-to-lovers dynamic and space adventure as an orphan mechanic teams up with her high school nemesis to escape to the outer realm.