READ MORE: The Witcher (Netflix) – Soundtrack Review I have to be honest, I’m not normally one for overly romantic stories, and can find them to be a little mushy at times, but Alexa Donne manages to make Leo and Elliot’s story engaging and interesting rather than over the top. The focus is instead given over to the people, with the human drama being the driving force behind the story. The science fiction elements of The Stars We Steal are really very subtle, and you can end up forgetting that it’s actually set in space a lot of the time. Now back, and stinking rich, Leo finds everything thrown on its head when Elliot seems determined to make her life a nightmare. A childhood friend and her former fiance, their relationship fell apart when she was ordered not to marry him because he was poor. Not only is Leo fighting against this expectation to go off and marry some rich man in order to save her family, she’s confronted by a ghost from her past when Elliot arrives at the event. READ MORE: Set the Tape’s Top 25 Films of the 2010s: #15 – #1 Whilst Leonie has designed a new water purification system that could help improve conditions across the fleet and make them rich, her father is banking on her meeting a rich man to marry during the Valg, an event where royals and rich people enter into a Bachelor like event to pair off and get engaged.
Her family is running out of money, their ship is falling apart, and they desperately need to do something to help change their fortunes. The Stars We Steal follows Princess Leonie Kolburg, Leo to her friends, a member of a royal house that has fallen on hard times. It’s a strange mixture of futuristic and old-worldy that shouldn’t work, but does really well. However, quite a bit of it also feels very old, kind of like a drama set in high society during the 1900s it’s even very similar to Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
It’s a sci-fi story for sure: it takes place on-board ships that are part of a fleet orbiting a frozen planet, waiting for an ice-age to end (it reminds me a lot of Battlestar Galactica in a few ways). The Stars We Steal by Alexa Donne is something of a strange book to try to pin down.
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