Review #267: Balance Broken (Starbright, #2) by Hilary Thompson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” 

----Charlotte Brontë

Hilary Thompson, an American YA author, pens the second book, Balance Broken in the Starbright series, where the story continues with Astrea, Lexan, Stian and Zarea trying to break free from the bond of prophecy that dictates their fate to save their city, on the other hand, the people of their city from where they just escaped are dependent on Astrea and her leadership to save them from their ill-fate.

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Review #266: Justice Buried (Starbright, #1) by Hilary Thompson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” 

----William Shakespeare

Hilary Thompson, an American author, has penned an extremely compelling YA dystopian book, Justice Buried which is the first book in the Starbright series and one look at the Goodreads page of this book makes me wonder, why isn't more number of YA readers are reading this thoroughly gripping YA science fiction dystopian that is mixed with astrology and lots of mythology, featuring our world, not so far away from the current day, where everything is ruled by prophecy or zodiac and people believed their fates in the stars.

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