From A Distant Star by Karen McQuestion book review

Summary:

Seventeen-year-old Emma was the only one who hadn’t given up on her boyfriend, Lucas. Everyone else—his family, his friends, his doctors—was convinced that any moment could be his last. So when Lucas miraculously returns from the brink of death, Emma thinks her prayers have been answered.

As the surprised town rejoices, Emma begins to question whether Lucas is the same boy she’s always known. When she finds an unidentifiable object on his family’s farm—and government agents come to claim it—she begins to suspect that nothing is what it seems. Emma’s out-of-this-world discovery may be the key to setting things right, but only if she and Lucas can evade the agents who are after what they have. With all her hopes and dreams on the line, Emma sets out to save the boy she loves. And with a little help from a distant star, she might just have a chance at making those dreams come true.

I was given an ARC by the author in exchange for an honest review.

My rating: One Worm!

I love alien stories. Don’t ask me why, but I do. I was the only reason I gave Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout a chance and my excitement behind Form A Distant Star by Karen McQuestion. The premise sounded a lot like Invasion by Robin Cook and that probably should have been a warning that I wasn’t going to like this book.

Don’t get me wrong, I liked that book but I found the idea that “love” could stop an alien apocalypse was rather dumb, and although the same happens here, From A Distant Star lacks interesting-or even likeable- characters, gripping storytelling and a decent plot.

The main character is Emma, who is struggling to find something to cure her terminally ill boyfriend. 

If well she was a nice turn from the usual “shy and useless” main character. Emma was dumb, selfish, inconsiderate and a slut-shamer.

I understand that when you’re young and in love you’re bound to make mistakes, and especially when your boyfriend is ill and dying, but she was simply too selfish for me to relate to her. She wants her boyfriend to live, no matter the cost. It doesn’t matter to her that her boyfriend may not want to live as a terminally ill patient, she just thinks of how much she loves him and how much she needs him.

She never leaves his side, even though it’s a great inconvenience to his parents. Imagine this, they are trying to mourn for his dying son and she is always there, always listening and not letting most people go near him, acting all enraged because they  want her to go back to her house. The kid is dying for Christ sake! And they can’t even cry for him because she won’t leave his fucking side.

She keeps talking about how she’s the only one who loves him, and how the cheerleaders were just dumb whores who were preying on him because he was a great player but that he “knew what was good” the second he saw her. Are you serious?

The teachings and reasoning’s of the alien were kind of dumb and unoriginal, of the kind “You say this but you actually mean something else? *shocked*”

The writing is rather immature and cliché which didn’t help with the bland characters.

Not recommended.