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Tittle: The Brightest Stars
Author: Anna Todd
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publishing Date: September 19th, 2018
Blurb
International bestselling author Anna Todd returns with a gripping novel about a young woman's journey towards love, and the obstacles life throws up at every turn.
Karina knows the harsh realities of military life. And like anyone who has grown up around an army base, she knows the background noise that follows a soldier home from war. That's why she's forging her own quiet life in her own little house. But she hasn't turned her back on her family. She's the glue that holds them together--when her father is deployed, when her brother, Austin, has another brush with the law.
Karina knows that she has to look after herself, that she can't always fix what's broken. But when Austin's behavior worsens and her father's reactions grow more extreme, Karina feels her own edges beginning to fray. That's when she meets him--a closed book she's desperate to open.
At just twenty, Kael is a handsome, brooding soldier struggling with the aftermath of two tours in Afghanistan. He's emotionally damaged and closed off. Quiet doesn't begin to describe him. But as Karina gets used to his stable presence, she finds it hard to ignore the way he makes her feel. In their time together, she finds the stillness she has always wanted and never found. She lets down her guard. And she lets herself fill in the blanks about this mysterious man.
But illusions quickly made are quickly shattered. That's when Karina has to find her own courage--to untangle the truth from the lies, and decide what she's going to do about it.
A riveting story about love and lies, THE BRIGHTEST STARS will stay with you long after the last page has been turned.
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Review
It is still amaze me, like the first time I fall in love with reading, that books have a strong power to warm hearts and change minds. And it is even more wonderful that authors bring us beautiful stories that light our souls and take us to different places and situations just like Anna Todd did with The Brightest Stars. I am highly mesmerized by the brilliant, discrete and contained way the author developed the storyline. It distils normality under a torrent of feelings that burst, waiting for an unexpected moment to overflow free as a wild river that can’t be contained. It is a powerful and emotional journey where the characters overcome, in the best possible way, the obstacles that life has given them. C'est une romance militaire qui a beaucoup de potentiel pour aimer les personnages et laisser vos émotions s'envoler.
The storyline unfolds smoothly like a sunflower in a sunny day. It lights your cloudy day with hope and love despite the web of lies where the main characters fight to clear the muddy truth. Each page will take you deep until you feel like a character in the world the author created. Anna Todd’s sensibility is stunning and she expresses it beautifully with this book. The Brightest Stars is a piece of heaven on earth. The military background and interracial love just adds complexity and form to this chef-d'oeuvre. This book is a tough romance that will consume you slowly and will burn you into ashes. The cherry on the cake is the wonderful characters that are completely different but that complete each other soul in a way that make you breath love, exhale hope and taste heaven.
Karina and Kael are like the sun and the moon; quite different. Karina is a ray of light; explosive and easy-going. Kael is shadows; reserved and quite. The chemistry between them can’t be denied because the attraction is there however something puts them at pause. Karina’s life is not rainbows and unicorns. She quite stands her father, she worries too much for her brother and the military life is something she is familiarized with. When she met a silent soldier she clearly understands why he is reserved because she lived in first hands the harsh realities of a military life. His silent and handsomeness drove her to her core. Kael intrigued her like no other man before. His hickory eyes reflect his reticent personality and his silence speaks louder than any words shouted.
Kael broke my heart! There is something indomitable about him and his past is heartbreaking. Life is hard but is the hardest when you are in a foreign country to protect freedom. After returning from Afghanistan he is lost and hurt. Something happened in his last tour that changed him in a way military life only can. To return to civil life is going to be quite hard but Karina will make him open up to the possibilities. Her massages will miraculously heal his soul but the scars will remain in him. Saving and protecting is in his blood but Karina is not a damsel in distress. She will prove him she is capable of handle herself and anything that threatens her.
Je ne peux pas exprimer combien j'aime l'histoire de Karina et Kael et je ne peux pas attendre pour en savoir plus à leur sujet parce que ce livre se termine par un coup de pied brutal! J'ai besoin de la vérité cachée autant que Karina en a besoin. Anna Todd a écrit une histoire mélancolique sur l'abandon, les déceptions, la survie et l'amour dans The Brightest Stars. Cinq étoiles ne suffisent pas à évaluer ce livre. Commençons par une galaxie!
Rating
Five beautiful stars! The story inside the pages of this book is poignant & angsty. Military romance + interracial love = poetic PERFECTION!
Excerpt
Elodie sat down on the couch and tucked her feet under her. Her petite body was changing, her belly starting to swell. I wondered where the baby would sleep in my little house. Elodie’s favorite American show at the moment was Scandal. She was binge-watching it for the first time.
“What season are you on now?” I asked her.
“Two,” she said softly.
She was being so quiet. I pulled my shoes off and it wasn’t until I dropped one on the floor and something moved in my peripheral vision that I realized another person was in my house.
A noise, a little like a shriek, flew from my mouth when I saw him. He was staring at me, the one-syllable client from earlier. He was sitting in my chair—the dark pink, used-to-be-red one that my nana gave me before we moved to Georgia.
“Um, hey?” I said when my heart stopped doing little flips from the aftershock of surprise. How did I not see a whole human in my living room? I had been feeling spacey a lot the last few weeks, but that day was another level.
“How was work?” Elodie asked, looking at the TV while her fingers picked at the fabric on her pants, and then back to me.
“Good …”
I stared at this Kael guy and he stared back at me. When I would recall this later, the first time he was inside my little white house, the memory would change from a burning pain to pure bliss and back—again and again and again. But when it happened in real life, it happened fast. Before he was anything to me—before he was everything—he was just a quiet stranger with a blank face and distant eyes. There was something indomitable about him, something so closed, that I couldn’t even begin to make up a life for him. He hated peppermint oil and hadn’t wanted me to touch his leg—those were the only clues I had to who he was.
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About the Author
Anna Todd is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the After series. An avid reader, Anna began writing stories on her phone on Wattpad, the reading and writing multi platform for original stories, with After becoming the most read series on the platform with over 1.5 billion reads. The print edition published in 2014. AFTER has been published in over 30 languages, with more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, and is a #1 bestseller in Italy, Germany, France and Spain.
The film adaptation of AFTER, which Anna is co-producing, is set to be released in early 2019. Anna and her husband currently live in Los Angeles.
Find her at AnnaTodd.com, on Twitter at @imaginator1d, on Instagram at @imaginator1d, and on Wattpad as Imaginator1D.
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