Meet your new favorite kickass heroine in this daring YA series by New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre, a thrilling yet romantic futuristic adventure perfect for fans of Claudia Gray’s A Thousand Pieces of You.Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to … Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell.
Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans selected by the Leviathan—a race of sentient alien ships—to explore the outer reaches of the universe as their passengers.
Zara seizes the chance to flee Earth’s dangers, but when she meets Nadim, the alien ship she’s assigned, Zara starts to feel at home for the first time. But nothing could have prepared her for the dark, ominous truths that lurk behind the alluring glitter of starlight.
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Electrifying and unputdownable. There is no other book like this in the universe. It’s an honor (even among thieves) to share Zara’s spaceship with her.
Zara, Beatriz and Nadim are all amazing, well-crafted characters. Their found family dynamic adds to the sci-fi action and creates an unforgettable adventure!
Things I never thought I’d say: my newest book boyfriend is the sentient Leviathan ship Nadeem.
Seriously, if you don’t love Nadeem, who are you? I need the rest of this series, stat. I absolutely love Zara, Bee, and, of course, ZADEEM!
Honor Among Thieves is the first book in The Honors YA sci-fi trilogy and I really wasn’t sure how the sentient spaceship thing would work for me. Answer: it worked really, really well. This book blends elements from Ender’s Game and Illuminae and an unusual-but-super-intriguing semi-romance. The story is action-packed with tons of fascinating characters and it’s a great way to dip your toe into sci-fi if it’s not your usual genre. The Honors trilogy is complete and available now and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of it.
I liked how this book started out (wily street rat betrayed and on the run. Love it.) and the connection the heroine develops with her ship, but the story didn’t grab me.
Worth checking out if you’re looking for a sci-fi without the intense space marine action.
3.5. Kind of boring at parts, took me a long time to finish
This book grabbed me from the start and took me on a ride through stars. A living, sentient spaceship isn’t a new concept, but Nadim, who seemed as young as the two girls assignted on him, is perhaps the most sympathetic I’ve encountered so far. His joys, sorrows, fears and pain became real for me both through his point of view chapters and through Zara. She was a great character with issues that helped her bond with Nadim for the improvement of them both.
The story started strong and climbed steadily higher until the final revelation in the last part of the book. If I were to look for flaws, it’s how quickly Zara became an expert mechanic after spending her teenage years dodging out of rehabilitation centers and living on the streets. But I could look past that and enjoy the story.
I’m not typically a science fiction/space reader, but I had the audio book and backed up a few places to get the idea of what the story was telling about the people and the ships that are part of them going through space.
Ann Aguirre and Rachel Caine are the definition of a double threat. Honor Among Thieves is proof — pitch-perfect pacing and unexpected twists make it a heart-stopping thrill ride. I loved every minute of it!
I like Rachel Cain’s other books and thought this sounded good. I was really forcing myself to read it and eventually stopped. It’s about a girl living in the broken future in the rough edge of New Detroit. After stealing a purse from the daughter of a wealthy mob boss, she lands into trouble. She leaves her friend and willingly goes to a detention facility. There she is “chosen” to be an “honor” and go live in space in these alien ship life forms for a year. Only a select few go every year, and most have trained and chosen their education and studies to be considered a good candidate. Not her. This is about where I stopped. It was slow, a little too weird, and just lacking something.
There was also quite a bit of language and drug use.
Next.
This is an intriguing world where Honor’s are taken around the universe by ships that are living beings. They think they are there to learn and find themselves in the middle of a war. Such an interesting world.
This book was FANTASTIC. The futuristic world was new and fresh and fascinating. I was rooting for Zara the whole way, and utterly surprised by so many twists. I could not turn the pages fast enough. This is going to be such a great series!
It took me a long time to get into this book. Ok, scratch that. It took me till the end of this book to get into it because it was the most exciting part of the book where I wasn’t scratching my head in confusion. This book had a lot of promise that took to long to deliver. The beginning was a boring fest for me, but I will when I finished the book and looked at it as a whole I did end up liking it as a whole. But while I was reading I almost quit on this book. I will read the next book in this series for hopes that the second book will get even more exciting as the ending.