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My first reaction to finishing it was a sense of complete satisfaction mingled with sadness that it was over.

So I savored and I dreamt and I started reading and. Because sometimes dreaming about it while you're actually holding it in your hands is special, too. Don't get me wrong, sometimes I just tear into it immediately. When a book you've been dying to read finally falls into your lap, do you ever just hold onto it and savor the possibilities? I do. I've been anxiously looking forward to For Darkness Shows the Stars for going on two years now, and the day an ARC showed up on my doorstep was just a very good day indeed. But honestly, I waited on it as long as I possibly could before the effort of holding it in caused me some sort of bodily harm. 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.I know this is an almost unpardonably early review. 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. But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret—one that could change their society.

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. 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. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Elliot North has always known her place in this world. 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.