The Stars Too Fondly

This was a fun read to curl up with over this gloomy weekend! This book was suggested to me by Alana, and I was about 80% of the way through it when I remembered I had been meaning to save it for 2025 so I could use it in next year's friends recommendations! (Alana already claimed a month this year, with the excellent Ladyhoppers.) But I'm sure she'll be full of more good recommendations for next year (right??)!

The Stars Too Fondly is a spacemance, which is sci-fi's answer to romantasy. Cleo and her friends start out on a quest to break into the site of a failed spaceship that has been sitting empty for 20 years. While exploring, they manage to fire up the engines and send the ship off on it's original journey. Luckily, the captain of the original journey has programmed herself as a hologram on board the ship so they have help in figuring out what went wrong with the original plan, and of course how to get back home.....

I think this book did a great job balancing the sci-fi/action plot with the romance story, and I really enjoyed all the various plot lines. Just what I needed to help me escape reality for a weekend!