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Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Agent: Elana Roth Parker, Laura Dail Literary. Still, this entertaining, loose adaptation of Brontë’s classic novel features solid sci-fi worldbuilding, creative details, and a diverse cast. A graduate of Boston University, she works in TV marketing and has done pro bono college admissions mentoring since 2014. Newcomer Donne hits all the predictable plot points of her romantic storyline, but she leaves other aspects, such as the heroine’s childhood and the story’s social criticism, undeveloped. Alexa Donne is the author of young adult thrillers The Ivies and the forthcoming Pretty Dead Queens, both published by Crown/Random House. Stella also stumbles across a conspiracy that threatens the disadvantaged in an increasingly resource-starved fleet, and she risks everything to save those she loves. But as Stella bonds with Hugo, they find an unexpected emotional connection, which blossoms into love despite complications. ![]() After a lifetime of austerity and deprivation, life aboard the luxurious Rochester is like a dream, save for odd accidents, mysterious laughter at night, and the ship’s reputation for being haunted. Seventeen-year-old orphan Stella Ainsley, an engineer aboard one of the many colony ships orbiting an Earth during a new ice age, accepts a role as a teacher aboard a private ship owned by the brooding Hugo Fairfax. Jane Eyre gets a futuristic reimagining in this appealing YA drama. ![]()
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