Steal the Stars by Nat Cassidy and Mac Rogers – Review

Published: November 7, 2017

Publisher: Tor Books

Genre: Science Fiction

Series: Standalone

Pages: 416 (Paperback)

My Rating: DNF

A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis:

Steal the Stars, a debut novel by Nat Cassidy, is based on the debut science fiction podcast from Tor Labs.

Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world.

They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth.

The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes.

It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence.

And they can’t afford a single mistake.

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It’s rare that I end up DNF’ing a book, but here we have one – only the second this year. Steal the Stars actually started out pretty strongly for me, but somewhere around the middle of the book I just lost interest. I didn’t care what happened to the characters, I didn’t care if the alien was dead or alive or suspended in between like Schrodinger’s cat when the box was closed.

I was pretty into this book at the beginning and thought all the super-secret military procedure was cool, especially when the reason for the secrets was revealed. An alien! Covered in weird alien moss, housed in a sleek alien ship with an engine that could drain your life force. I even like the MC well enough from the beginning, though I didn’t care for the perspective in which the story was told – like a letter written to someone. It just didn’t work for me. Also, as soon as the Dak (the MC) decided she was madly in love with the new guy upon first site I was hesitant to continue. I did forge onward for a couple hundred pages, but then they started making horrible, illogical decisions together and then I put it down to take a break. And never picked it back up. That is all.

If you finished this book, let me know what you ended up thinking of it. Should I eventually try to read the whole thing?