#19: Melissa Landers, Starflight

[kareila]

I picked this up in the YA section of the library because of the cover blurb about found family on a rusty bucket of a spaceship, but I was hoping for a space opera, and it turned out to be much more of a stereotypical romance: spoiled rich boy grows up hating poor smart girl, boy gets amnesia and is kidnapped by girl, boy and girl end up confined on a spaceship together and resolve their differences, etc. In contrast to the ensemble cast of Firefly, this story is very much about these two; the other quirky members of the crew are merely supporting characters. According to Goodreads, there is a forthcoming companion novel that focuses on two other crew members, but I didn't like this one enough to bother tracking it down.