It also had to compete with my favorite reimagining, For Darkness Shows the Stars, by Diana Pererfreund. Persuasion has always been my favorite Jane Austen novel, so The Stars We Steal had a lot to live up to before I even turned the first page. Synopsis provided by HMH Books for Young Readers But old habits die hard, and as Leo navigates the glittering balls of the Valg Season, she finds herself falling for her first love in a game of love, lies, and past regrets. Now he’s the biggest catch of the season and he seems determined to make Leo’s life miserable. Elliot was the one who got away, the boy Leo’s family deemed to be unsuitable for marriage. Eighteen-year-old Princess Leonie “Leo” Kolburg, heir to a faded European spaceship, has only one thing on her mind: which lucky bachelor can save her family from financial ruin?īut when Leo’s childhood friend and first love, Elliot, returns as the captain of a successful whiskey ship, everything changes. Persuasion becomes the ultimate space dating game in Alexa Donne’s The Stars We Steal.Įngagement season is in the air. THE STARS WE STEAL, by Alexa Donne , HMH Books for Young Readers, Feb.
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