Lynnie 
young adult fiction
Marie Lu's books have been hit or miss with me
since I read Legend (which I loved). Stars and Smoke is the first Lu
book I've read in a long time that had the same energy of Legend, so I
enjoyed it more than many of her other books. All that said, it's on the
young end of the YA spectrum. Still, it's a fun adventure.
Pop star Winter Young - annoyingly beautiful and good at everything - is recruited by a secret spy agency to help them infiltrate a crime organization. He's their spy agency's "in" but the real spy is young Sydney Cossette, a teenage spy with a sad background who will work as Winter's bodyguard during the mission. As you can imagine, shenanigans ensue. Young readers will love everything about this book, but as an adult reader there were dangling questions left frustratingly unanswered. Winter and Sydney were both interesting and sympathetic characters and I found myself interested in them in spite of my old jaded heart.
Truth be told, I am likely to read the next one in this series at some point because it was an easy, fun book and a fun adventure. Can't ask for more than that.
Pop star Winter Young - annoyingly beautiful and good at everything - is recruited by a secret spy agency to help them infiltrate a crime organization. He's their spy agency's "in" but the real spy is young Sydney Cossette, a teenage spy with a sad background who will work as Winter's bodyguard during the mission. As you can imagine, shenanigans ensue. Young readers will love everything about this book, but as an adult reader there were dangling questions left frustratingly unanswered. Winter and Sydney were both interesting and sympathetic characters and I found myself interested in them in spite of my old jaded heart.
Truth be told, I am likely to read the next one in this series at some point because it was an easy, fun book and a fun adventure. Can't ask for more than that.
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