For Darkness Shows the Stars (edition 2012)

by Diana Peterfreund

Series: For Darkness Shows the Stars (1)

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"Elliot North fights to save her family's land and her own heart in this post-apocalyptic reimaging of Jane Austen's PERSUASION"--

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Title:	For Darkness Shows the Stars
Authors:	Diana Peterfreund
Info:	Balzer Bray (2012), Hardcover, 416 pages
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Give me Astrid back, please. Austen does not need to be re- envisioned. The author should just stick with her own great ideas. (

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caro_dimo | Jun 5, 2023 |

I really enjoyed this book. There were good conflicts and resolutions.
My only real gripe is that I felt the characters should have been a little older, considering the original conflict that sparks it all.
I also would have loved an epilogue of some sort, but I guess I'll just have to get the next book and see if I get to meet these characters again. (

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KayleeWin | Apr 19, 2023 |

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Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |

I definitely liked it more than 3 stars worth, but the world building is a bit spotty. I'd rather details be left out than have the internal logic be not actually logical.

Anyway, I love Diana Peterfreund and I'll read whatever she writes in this series because the story is fun and the romance is melancholy and sweet. (

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wonderlande | Jan 1, 2023 |

Adorable! Another rec (from the friend who told me to read Raven Boys and The Diviners) and another winner in the long run of beautiful rec books.

This was a sweeping retelling of Jane Austen's "Persuasion" and I loved getting to see how Diana rewound the story, refitted it to her world. The pieces that clicked immediately, the passions of the characters, the difference of culture and choice, how love and pride (of many different kinds of both) are at war across this story.

I made sad, confused faces in the right places. I clung to the childhood letters that led you through the past between chapters. I cheered and was taken aback, and swooned through the right declarations. And my heart soared in the end, when the conclusion was what we knew it would be, but what felt all over new with our heroine this time, again.

I'd definitely advise this one to my friends who love classics, who love retellings, who love love and life and survival. (

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added by Katya0133 | editThe Horn Book Guide, April Spisak (Sep 1, 2012)

Readers will keep turning the pages right up to the end.

added by Katya0133 | editSchool Library Journal., Leigh Collazo (Jun 1, 2012)

A post-apocalyptic retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion scores high for ingenuity but loses points with sledgehammer morality.

added by Katya0133 | editKirkus Reviews (May 1, 2012)

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2012-06-12

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Elliot North

Captain Malakai "Kai" Wentforth

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There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

Anne did not wish for more of such looks and speeches. His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You piece my soul.

Jane Austen, Persuasion

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For my mother, who loves Jane Austen as much as I do,

And my daughter, who I hope one day will.

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Elliot North raced across the pasture, leaving a scar of green in the silver, dew-encrusted grass.

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It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth--an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.

But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret--one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.

Inspired by Jane Austen's "Persuasion", "For Darkness Shows the Stars" is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.

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