Tin Star (Paperback) by Cecil Castellucci

from love_of_books

Tula is on a space ship from Earth heading out to a new planet to set up a colony when things go horribly wrong. She was helping Brother Blue, the leader, and in questioning him, she finds herself at death's door. Left behind but barely alive, she must learn to survive on a ship filled with alien...

from Franuary

Tula, an independent and spirited fourteen-year-old girl, is eager to rise among the ranks of The Children of Earth, a planet colonization group that offers her family the chance at a new life. Her hopes are dashed when she asks the wrong questions of a high-ranking colony official and she is bea...

from lilibrarian

Tula is the only survivor of a colony ship that exploded, and she is believed to be dead. The only human on a remote space station, she creates a life for herself scavanging and trading under the benevolent oversight of the constable. Her life is complicated when 3 other humans appear on the stat...

from Pabkins

​​​​​​I'm reading, and reading, and yet for how short Tin Star is it takes a remarkably long time to get anywhere. The course of this essentially spans a handful of years and I think that was part of it. Luckily, Tula is one resilient girl, I gotta give it to her and even though I didn't particul...

from EuronerdLibrarian

The first 10 pages and the last 10 pages are exciting, but the rest is a bit of a slog. The premise is promising and a breath of fresh air in a dystopian-saturated sci-fi market. But the world Castellucci creates never really came alive, and her protagonist narrator is distant and detached. I can...