Star Bringer was amazing! I was lucky enough to receive an eARC, and it did not disappoint. I loved all the characters by the end, and there were many twists and turns that I didn’t see coming. Adventure, space, romance, and so many mysteries to uncover. I can’t wait for the next book! Hopefully it won’t be too long of a wait!

Wow! What a wild ride! Star Bringer is an exciting and immersive sci-fi that’s kind of like Aurora Rising meets The Breakfast Club meets Firefly. It follows seven people thrown together after an explosive and catastrophic event who must work together to survive, especially when they learn they are all wanted dead or alive. The story is fast-paced, full of twists and turns and unexpected revelations,

The story is told from several characters’ perspectives, which I liked because they are all so different. It really allows you to understand what each is thinking, feeling, and dealing with. Kali, the princess, Ian, the mercenary, Rain, the high Priestess, and Beckett, the escaped prisoner, are some of my favorites. They each have such a unique story to tell, and each perspective is as compelling as the last.

I feel like using the varied points of view gives so much insight into the characters as well as the setting, political dynamics, and more. The characters are layered and intriguing, as are the different relationship dynamics. Friendships, new and old, family, and enemies are all traveling together on a ship that is way more than meets the eye (so cool!), and their changing and growing relationships are as fascinating as the setting and plot. Even though the crew members are all so different, they slowly grow into this wonderful kind of family, and they work together really well. They become a unit, and their banter, actions, and the different points of view show how these strangers learn to work and fight together and protect and trust each other.

And the romances! Sa-woon!! There are two stand-out love stories, and I adored them both. Kali and Ian have total enemies-to-lovers vibes, and I was here for it! I always adore an angsty romance, and the princess and mercenary have it in spades. Their chemistry is off the charts, and the way they constantly gravitate toward each other without even realizing just makes my heart squeeze. I would like to officially declare Ian my new book boyfriend because I adore this snarky, protective, brooding, and loving hunk of a man.

The other main love story is more grumpy-sunshine, and it was wonderful. Where Ian and Kali have a lot of angst and sexual tension and fire, Beckett and Rain have more of a soft, sweet, and sexy love story. Their romance feels so pure and innocent, which I think has a lot to do with Rain, who is the most optimistic, enthusiastic, and hopeful of the crew. She and Beckett, who is much more abrasive and hardened, balance each other nicely.

Star Bringer is the kind of book where you become completely invested in the characters, the story, the world, and more. I was so engrossed in the story that I gave up sleep to finish it. I couldn’t put the book down until I found out what happened to the characters, whether they found the person they were looking for, if they discovered who was after them, and how they would resolve the dozens of other problems and conflicts that stood in their way. Plus, they’re facing the ever-looming eventuality of the sun destroying all of the planets in their system, and someone on the ship might be the only one who can save them. Add to that, the political unrest, rebellions, lies and manipulations, the fight for power and control, the oppressive nature of their world, alien intervention, and so much more. No pressure, though. lol

My word, it was a great ending. Though it resolved some things, it also left me with so many more questions, but in the best possible way! Also, I think the story has just scratched the surface of what is happening in this system, and I’m eager to see how the group deals with all of the antagonists working against them, especially after that revelation at the end of the book. There are so many different groups targeting them, and their lives are always at risk, and they’re also aware that the situations they’re pulled into affect more than just them. Let me tell you, it is intense, and action-packed, and so shocking. I can’t wait to get my hands on the next book in the series!

Special thanks to Entangled Publishing for providing me with a copy of the book. All thoughts are my own.

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▪︎ Name: Star Bringer
▪︎ Author: Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft
▪︎ Genre: Fantasy
▪︎ Rating: 4.25 ⭐️
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Before proceeding to this book, there are TW such as death, near death experiences, and more so please search the TW! Red Tower Books is serving us good this year! After Fourth Wing, Red Tower Books serves another fantastic book 😘. I love you Red Tower Books ❤️. This book was such a fun read and this book was such a thick book but it didn't feel like it was thick! I am not a major sci-fi fan but this is a great book if you want to get into the sci-fi fantasy genre. Fast paced book is what I needed and this book servedddddd! The romance was great but a little fast but I loved it and the twist was well incorporated too! The characters are well written and the action and adventure depicted in this book was so much funnnn! I felt like I was part of their group hehehe. The multiple POV was such a great addition because it really did well in highlighting the characters' traits/personality 👏. Yall and wait what was that cliffhanger???? I was like 🤨, did not expect that... is there a sequel??? Ummm I'll be needing book 2 pls 🥲.
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Thank you Netgalley, Red Tower Books, Entagled, Brittainy, Tracy Wolff, and Nina Croft for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review!
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Thank you to Red Tower Books for an ARC of Star Bringer by Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft! I loved Tracy Wolff’s Crave series, so when Star Bringer was announced, I was thrilled!

Star Bringer is set in outer space and is told in multi POV. I love a good multi POV and this one, was on point. None of the POV’s felt the same and were distinctly different. We have Kali (The Crown Princess of the Nine Planets), Rain (High Priestess of the Sisterhood of the Light), Ian (Mercenary and Smuggler and-very Occasional Good guy) and Beckett (Newly Escaped Prisoner 826)

Each POV is unique to the character and you won’t want to skip anyone’s chapter. Sometimes when reading a multi POV book, you want to skip a character to get back to another’s story. This doesn’t happen with Star Bringer, each character has an interesting back story and personality that keeps you invested in their story.

I highly enjoyed Star Bringer, and I recommend picking it up. You won’t be disappointed!

Star Bringer by Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft is such an amazing book that I devoured.

I LOVED this story and it was so addictive. I love the group of seven characters as they try to escape the dying sun on a stolen spaceship. The action is FANTSTIC.

But the multiple POV and the characters are what makes this book. They are funny, complex, and well written. They do have their own secrets and are all so different.

The world building is incredible and this misfit group of seven characters is all that is left to save the world against a dying sun.

Ah this book was incredible.

Thank you to Entangled Publishing, Red Tower Books and Netgalley for the eARC. All opinions are my own.

My first adult sci-fi book and I really enjoyed it. It took me a little to get into it at first. Adjusting to the multiple perspectives/POV chapters from each main character was a struggle at first. And the pace was a little slow at first, but I otherwise really enjoyed it.

I enjoyed the LGBTQIA+ rep and the tension between characters that created for really interesting relationships and dynamics.

I’m very interested in reading more from this author(s).

“Star Bringer” did not disappoint. The beginning felt a little slow. But when the story took off, I realized that Tracy Wolff had set the perfect stage for the rest of the book and right up to the cliffhanger! Enemies to lovers. Unexpected twists. Awesome characters who had been realistically crafted. The plot revealed a fresh, new angle of an outer space theme. In regards to Tracy Wolff’s first venture with a space-themed book, she launched “Star Bringer” out of this world.

Before I get into it, I want to say thank you to Entangled Publishing, Red Tower Books, and NetGalley for a copy of this ER in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This book was a whole vibe. I’m ready for bed too and I can’t find anything about it online so right now in this moment, even though I’m riding on Ohio, this fast-paced space adventure I am sad. I was so caught up in this book. I ignored a lot of my responsibilities, and I’ll do it again in a heartbeat. I kind of want to re-read the book right now, but do you have other books that I said I will read and review so I should probably get to those?

Star bringer has a full cast of diverse characters who have to overcome their vast differences, to survive the hot mess of a situation that they find themselves in. The sun in the solar system is dying and their only hope for averting the whole solar system getting blown up when the sun goes supernova is an alien artifact that is on a space station. And then somebody blows up the space station. The story follows this cast of characters who survive and flee that explosion.

At the core of this is the found family story and as I said earlier, all the characters have huge differences. They come from all walks of life, and they honestly don’t trust each other and some of them can’t stand each other. I fell in love with every single one of these characters, and I can’t wait to find out the rest of their story. It was fun and engaging, adventurous, and more than I expected and I expected a lot given the synopsis. I don’t wanna spoil anything, but there is a next-level spaceship in the story that is amazing. The concept of it is really cool. The ship is the cherry on top of this fantastic fast-paced space adventure.

I am definitely going to recommend this to people although I will say that it ends in a cliffhanger for everybody who doesn’t like that but it’s worth it. There’s an opposite attracts trope, there’s royalty, betrayal, and cute romances, one of which has an LGBTQ rep.

Buckle up because this one is going to take you for a ride.

I really wanted to love this book with all the hype it got. Not every book will appease to every reader. I just felt for me it wasn’t it. I felt it jumped around too much and I couldn’t just stay interested. I finished the book to know how it ended but I really wanted to DNF.

Rated 4.5 Stars

Star Bringer was an immensely unforgettable read. I loved it. There was action, adventure, romance, sarcasm and so much more. I loved the world. It was interesting, intriguing and cool. One of my favorite things were the characters. They each had something endearing about them but my faves are Kali, Ian and Starlight. Another thing I loved about it was the discovery element - discovery of the worlds; discovery of the plots, plans and ploys of the enemy as well as the discovery of self. I loved that they were all going on this journey together but internally they were each having a different experience. This book was an absolute joy to read. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series and yes, I very highly recommend it.

Star Bringer follows a group of seven misfits who are trapped on a ship, the Starlight, due to a couple of issues - one of the misfits happens to be a princess!! Can’t forget a prisoner, mercenary, or priestess, plus a few more. Now, the corporation, sisterhood, and rebellion are after the misfits. Did I mention the sun is dying super fast???
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Ahhhh!!! Long awaited read! This was so great! The world building was a lot at times, but IT GOT SO GOOD I COULDN’T PUT IT DOWN. IT MADE ME CRY, LAUGH, and SWOON. I have never read a sci-fi book before but anything @tracywolffbooks writes, I will read lol. Highly recommend this read!! 💜

I am so excited to annotate my book when it comes!

There’s 4 main POVs we’re in: Princess Kalinda (Kali), Rain, Ian, and Beckett. Each of the 4 have a distinct personality and voice so you know who’s chapter you’re in as soon as you start reading it.

Kali is a spoiled princess who things that the rose-colored lenses that she sees the prod through are accurate….until the rest of the squad stomps on them and enlightens her.

Rain is The High Priestess. She’s supposed to help spread the word of the Light and maybe save the world? She’s been raised at a monastery (basically in captivity) so the world is brand new to her.

Ian. What a hard ass. Truly, he just needs a hug and to take a chill pill.

Beckett. Escaped prisoner/daughter of this universes version of the Boogeywoman. She’s fighting some serious demons, and I don’t think anything can help.

I don’t even read scifi and I’m telling you to get. This. Book. ASAP.

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Huge thanks to Red Tower Books for the eARC!

🚀I first saw this book described as "Firefly meets Breakfast Club" and was immediately interested. That and the fact that any Tracy Wolff book is an instant pre-order for me!

✨️I was lucky enough to read an early copy and wow this book is phenomenal! Five stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

☄️Tracy and Nina are absolutely brilliant authors! The story is like nothing I've ever read before in the very best way. It pulled me in right away and kept me captivated until the very last page!

🛰The plot is fantastic, the characters are entertaining and the world building is complex. Which is everything I've come to love from Tracy's writing.

☀️This book is filled with snarky banter, adventure, secrets, romance, spice and lots of twists and turns!

🌌I absolutely cannot wait for the story to continue in book two and see what happens to our merry band of misfits!

✨️"As crews go, we're a goddamn disaster. A princess, a priestess, a bodyguard, a prisoner, a con artist, a goofball and me, self-appointed a-hole in charge of them all."✨️

Thank you to Entangled for allowing me to read an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

P.S. I want a prupple 🥰

I loved this new adult sci-fi book from Wolff and Croft. They really brought it all. We follow a band of misfits through and incredible journey set in space. There is forced proximity, enemies to lovers and assassination attempts throughout! It gave me Cinder meets The Breakfast Club vibes. I can’t wait to see where this group goes in the next book!

It's hard to explain, but Star Bringer gave me the same feelings that I had the first time I watched (and immediately felt captivated by) Star Wars and Firefly: a rag-tag group of people, none of whom would find themselves together in any normal situation, find themselves in an action-packed adventure of a lifetime as they race to save the planetary system. Even at 600+ pages, I had a hard time putting Star Bringer down. There was action, there was romance, and there were more revelations than I could count, each willingly pulling me deeper into this adventure featuring a princess, a prisoner, a con artist, a goofball, a priestess, her bodyguard, and their sarcastic, self-appointed leader. This is the space epic that has been missing from my shelf.

It's clear that two elements truly kept me hooked on this story: the characters, and the revelations. Both gave so much to this book, and both made me love the direction the plot was heading in more and more with each page turn. I loved these characters from the very first page. There was just something about them that drew me into their backstories, even when it seemed like I shouldn't care that much for them. It's hard to pick a favorite character; the ones I enjoyed the most were intrinsically tied together. Star Bringer is not the last we'll see of these characters, and I honestly cannot wait to see where every single characters' story go from here.

There were so many big reveals/plot revelations that I honestly lost count of how many times I was left gasping over what I'd just read. Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft left my head spinning and simultaneously wanting more. We uncovered so much about what characters have done (and what had been done to characters) that it was impossible to foresee any of the big reveals and plot twists.

Overall, Star Bringer was a space epic that left me on the edge of my seat, impatient to know what comes next. This is prime sci fi combined with just the perfect amount of romance, and I need more from this group of misfits (the characters, not the authors).

Ohh man where to even start?

The synopsis had me at its reference to Firefly, and honestly it was such an apt comparison. Think Firefly, but with a much younger cast and not as dark as the show can get. Despite how young the majority of the characters are, there still manages to be the hardened bitterness of certain characters that you might expect from a tale that takes place in space with a group of misfits, some of whom have had to do some questionable things to stay alive.

As serious as the danger and mission that this ragtag group takes on is, it’s even better because of how comedic they still manage to be. With such a strange and quite frankly vastly different group of people that wind up on this unexpected space trip, there is bound to be some seriously clashing personalities and beliefs. It just serves to lighten the moment when you have a princess interacting with basically anyone else on the ship, having her very different upbringing and understanding of the world rub more than a few people the wrong way. Or a priestess who is naively innocent to the world and somehow manages to cozy up with the hardened criminal. It’s just fantastic from start to finish watching this group of characters interact with one another, and somehow actually grow to work together as a unit and… not hate each other!?

And the romance. When I say I was an immediate big time shipper of more than one coupling happening right from the moment they set eyes on each other, I’m not even exaggerating. Ian, the broody yet sexy mercenary had my heart a-swooning from the moment he entered the scene. And damn straight I was all in on the intense chemistry and sexual tension between him and the Princess, Kali. My god it just jumped off the pages between them. But then there was also Rain and Beckett. I loved this potential as soon as these two characters started interacting because it just epitomized the grumpy x sunshine and just the idea of these two together was too adorable for me to handle. I’m also a sucker for this trope so for both couples I was immediately fingers crossed that they would come to be.

But beyond this, I was honestly just straight up obsessed with the characters individually. It was such a motley crew, and yet somehow worked so well together. They all brought something to the crew and to the story, and I just could not get enough of their interactions, or of each different point of view from one chapter to the next. I’m so obsessed with these characters and need more of them. Endless amounts more. Needless to say I cannot wait for the sequel. Both to get more of these characters, and to get answers to the questions that the end of the book brought up. I didn’t think Star Bringer could get any more tense, but boy did the ending prove me wrong. All this to say, run to get Star Bringer because you will devour it, and you will enjoy every minute of it. Definitely worth the read.

Just buy it. You will not be disappointed. This will battle Fourth Wing for most talked about book. It such a powerful story with so much inspiration from beloved sci-fi and fantasy story we all grew up loving; firefly, starwars, star gate.... you get a little bit of them all with the classic Breakfast Club dynamic. Buckle up for the twists! This book has no shortage of twists that will have you jumping out if your seat and running to tell someone ANYONE about what just happend. Why are you still reading this review? GO BUY THE BOOK!

The sun is dying, seven strangers are trapped together on a piece of junk spaceship, and everyone is hunting them. If that’s not enough, the strangers are carrying secrets and dealing with alien artifacts. What could possibly go wrong?

Wolff and Croft created an unputdownable action packed, space opera masterpiece. The story is told through varying points of view: Ian, Kali, Beckett, and Rain. This is one of the rare instances where I loved each characters POV and didn’t find myself wanting to focus solely on one or two character POVs. In addition, the world building and character development were top notch. Each of the places the group visited as well as the areas the crew originally grew up had their own unique identity. The character development especially for Kali and Rain was remarkable from their sheltered lives to who they had a chance to become once aboard the Starlight. One scene that really stands out to demonstrate this is when Rain got to wear the blue jumpsuit with pink piping. It was such a small thing in the grand scheme, but it was her first opportunity to wear something that wasn’t white. Kali really comes in to her own going from spoiled princess to learning from the crew how to complete tasks on her own. She really struggled with being a waste of space and as a result took the time to learn from her crew mates.
As for the plot itself, I felt it had really strong pacing between edge of your seat action and calmer character interactions. One of my favorite scenes from the book is one such calmer plot point. I loved when Kali and Rain got to experience snow for the very first time. There were plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing as well as the mystery surrounding saving the dying sun, what Dr. Veragelen has been getting up to in her lab, and the heptosphere. There was also a good mix of political intrigue between the Corporation, Empire, Rebels, and Sisterhood as well as betrayals. Make sure you’re buckled up because the last few chapters are a real wild ride.
If you loved the Aurora Rising and Illuminae Files series but wished they were more adult, you need to pick up Star Bringer. It had similar vibes to both series with Starlight being reminiscent of AIDEN and the ragtag found family of Aurora Rising. I loved both of those series. However, if the next book(s) can live up to Star Bringer’s debut, I feel like this series has the potential to be even better.

First I want to say, thank you so much for this amazing opportunity to read this book. It was one of the books in my long list, to go and buy.
Once I started to read it, I liked how they have all these characters as the “main” character. We have an insight what they’re feeling and thinking.
It was easy read, feel and relate these characters. Also, a great way to escape reality. It was fun, you obviously start to become a little biased who will be your favorite character.
They were all stuck, filling these roles. But being stuck, in a tiny spaceship they learned who they truly are, and not just to play some role what other people want them to be.
That being said, I hope they’ll be sequels to this book, because I feel like there’s more to be told, and to know what happens next.

Thank you to Red Tower and Entangled Publishing for the free eARC!

When I saw that this was pitched as Firefly and The Breakfast Club, I was like immediately pre-order, Firefly was one of my favorite TV shows and movies with a phenomenal story and amazing characters. Add in a sapphic love story...sign me up!

This did not disappoint. It is fast paced, it is massive political intrigue, but also found family in a catastrophic scenario, it is full of lies and un-truths, it is infighting, it is race to save the system, alien tech, ancient legends, fight to the finish, character growth, and choosing the better path even if it means leaving.

This is outstanding and decidedly spicier than anticipated, and the spice is very well done. There's multiple points of view so you get to see a lot of the background that way. There are lots of twists, turns, surprises and truth bombs that are dropped, so don't be surprised by the temptation to binge read the entire book just because you have to know what happens next.

5 out of 5, can't recommend enough! I am anxiously awaiting my physical copy!