Review: Excellent Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2012
My Star, by Christine Gasbjerg is a fairly short book about a young girl, Millie, tired of the ache in her heart.  While most of us opt for the Ben&Jerry;'s, Millie opts for a mission out into space.  The book itself, although technically sci-fi, had a sort of post-apocalyptic theme with a small hint of dystopian fantasy to it.The prose startled me at first.  It's written in a present tense, which I wasn't used to, but after a little while it grew on me.  It's still not my favorite prose, and not something I would have chosen, but Gasbjerg makes it work well for the story.The characters themselves are well written and distinct, which was a plus for the genre where I've read a lot of characters who tend to be two dimensional and interchangeable.  You get to know Millie in a relatively quick fashion, and it was nice to read a character who was unique, but not to the point of being "obnoxiously perfect".I'm giving the book a happy five of five stars, and if you like that sort of sci-fi romance style of book, I highly recommend picking this up!