Besides, I’m not reviewing the back cover. However, these things are written by the publisher, meaning we can’t blame or judge the author for them. “But with Stella he’s kind” is probably the most flat sentence I have ever encountered in a book’s description. Wow, that was…not the best back cover copy I’ve read. But with Stella he’s kind.īut the Rochester harbors secrets: Stella is certain someone is trying to kill Hugo, and the more she discovers, the more questions she has about his role in a conspiracy threatening the fleet. When a private ship hires her as a governess, Stella jumps at the chance. The captain of the Rochester, nineteen-year-old Hugo Fairfax, is notorious throughout the fleet for being a moody recluse and a drunk. Her home is a floundering spaceship that offers few prospects, having been orbiting an ice-encased Earth for two hundred years. Seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley wants just one thing: to go somewhere-anywhere-else. I actually bought this the day it became available at Barnes and Noble. I don’t know if I have ever been more excited by a book’s premise. You all probably already know this, because I’m the last to know about anything, but this is a retelling of Jane Eyre (one of my all-time favourite books) set in space. I have lost nearly all interest in YA, but I was so excited when I heard this book was coming out. In which I review Alexa Donne’s debut novel, Brightly Burning, which is a science fiction retelling of Jane Eyre.

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