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What is the book about?
The short version: Three realms, two betrayals, and one dying star weave a tale of never-been-kissed Elliana who risks her heart and loses big, but discovers a fantastical realm which charges her with saving a dying star--or risk never experiencing love.
The longer version:
High school senior Elliana lives life so safely that she feels like she’s missing out, so she takes a risk of the heart. When that creates more problems than she had to begin with, she swears off love completely—which totally backfires. Through an ironic twist, she meets a new love interest and then discovers the Seeking Realm where she is confronted with the impossible task of saving a dying star that has everything to do with the survival of love itself. When things go from bad to worse, she learns she has a very real enemy who will stop at nothing to ensure she fails. The onslaught of trouble tempts Elliana to admit defeat, until she learns a secret that demands she finish the job. The only problem is that she must take more risks—and risks really haven’t worked out well for her yet.
Starlight Legend is a clean YA Romantic Fantasy and has a fairytale-legend feel to it, and if we're being completely honest, even contains a tidbit of Sci-Fi as well since it talks about stars and the galaxy and other realms.
I plan on doing a Q&A with the Author soon. Please leave your questions in the comments below.
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- How quickly did you engage with the book? Were
you engaged immediately, or did it take you a while to get into it?
- Which character did you feel the most empathy
towards?
- What major emotional response did the story
evoke in you? When?
- What question do you think the author was trying
to find an answer to?
- Why do you think Marlee behaved the way she did?
- Did you like the characters and, if not, was
that important?
- Were there any characters you loved to hate?
- Who were you gunning for and why?
- Why did the characters do what they did? Were
their actions justified?
- Did they remind you of people you know?
- Did the main characters change by the end of the
book? If so, how?
- Marlee said, “You worry too much—you need to
learn how to live a little, at least walk to the edge where the view is better.”
Do you agree with her?
- Is living life safely healthy or unhealthy?
- Is being a risk-taker healthy or unhealthy?
- What main themes does the novel explore?
- Did the author use symbols to reinforce the main
ideas?
- In this book, Elliana looks into the history of
her adoption. How does adoption affect those involved?
- What did you think the central conflict was?
- What ironies did you discover in the novel?
- Which were your favorite scenes or chapters?
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Did you enjoy the Seeking Realm aspect of the
writing?
- What questions would you ask Rose?
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Consider Marlee's and Granger's behavior. If someone is suffering, does that justify their
bad behavior?
- What do you think about Elliana dating two guys
at the same time with their consent (and not kissing either)?
- Elliana saved her first kiss for someone
special. How many people do you think regret their first kiss?
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How do people become duplicitous (like Granger
and Marlee)?
- Did the bonus chapter change anything for you?
- In Chapter 1, Elliana complains that people think she's weak because she's nice. Is being nice a sign of weakness?
- Elliana believed that rising up seemed to make one a target.
Is there any truth to that?
- Elliana feels driven to find out who her parents are. How important is it to know one’s parents and have a
relationship with them?
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How do you think the use of third-person viewpoint affected the story? How would it have been different if told
in first-person only?
- Why might the author have chosen to tell the
story the way he or she did—and what difference did it make in the way you read
or understand it?
- Did any passages strike you as insightful or
profound? Perhaps a bit of funny or poignant dialogue that encapsulates a
character?
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What did the title come to mean to you by the
end of the novel?
- Were you satisfied with the book’s ending? What
do you think the future holds for Elliana and Cai?
- Did the novel leave any questions open-ended
that you would have liked to have known the answer to?
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Had you read reviews before reading the book? If
so, did you agree with the reviewers or not?
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If you had to halve the size of your book
collection, would this book stay or go?
- If you could ask the author one question, what
would it be?
- If there were a Book 2, who or what should be the focus?