Someone will stop at nothing until he’s dead, which means they’ll target Joy, too. Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne…and accused of the murders. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life-apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility’s most infamous playboy brings.ĭuke Felix Hamdi has a plan.
(Jan.To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor… Agent: Natalie Lakosil, Irene Goodman Literary. Though the combination of galactic intrigue, Earth-bound teenage antics, and frequent flashbacks result in a crowded, unevenly paced story, Dow ( The Sound of Stars) capably executes the friends-to-lovers trope, combined with thoughtful explorations of colorism, body shaming, imperialism, and racism. Instead of the neutral planet they’re aiming for, they land on Terra (Earth), upon a Florida island where they seek refuge. But Felix is implicated when the Qadin convoy is shot down over Hali, and Joy caught in the line of fire, forcing both on the run. Though it’s common for Kindreds to marry, class differences keep Felix and Joy-who have “different kinds of brown” skin-apart, and Joy is by necessity engaged to a wealthy man she doesn’t love. He’s linked to music-loving Joy Mirari Abara, hailing from impoverished Hali and born three minutes after Felix.
Aspiring 17-year-old musician Felix Hamdi is a haughty duke from wealthy world Maru, where his royal Qadin cousins reign. To quiet social upheaval following a past revolution, the conquering Qadin family conceived of the Monchuri system’s Kindred Program, which telepathically links citizens-“one from the upper class, one from the lower”-at birth.
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