The Stardust Grail
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Katharine Chin
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Written by:
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Yume Kitasei
About this listen
Long-listed, NPR Best Book of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Esquire Magazine Best Books of the Year, 2024
Long-listed, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, 2024
Save one world. Doom her own.
Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations—until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of anthropology, but she’s haunted by persistent and disturbing visions of the future.
Then an old friend comes to her with a job she can’t refuse: find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. Except no one has seen it in living memory, and they aren’t the only ones hunting for it.
Maya sets out on a breakneck quest through a universe teeming with strange life and ancient ruins. But the farther she goes, the more her visions cast a dark shadow over her team of friends new and old. Someone will betray her along the way. Worse yet, in choosing to save one species, she may condemn humanity and Earth itself.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
©2024 Yume Kitasei (P)2024 Macmillan AudioWhat the critics say
"Kitasei’s outstanding sophomore outing clears the high bar she set in The Deep Sky, combining a high-stakes space adventure with exquisitely crafted worldbuilding and plausibly imagined interspecies communication." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Broad in scope, covering everything from the rise and fall of alien civilizations to what it means to be a person, this is a luminous work, vacillating between the highs and lows of human experience and how they might translate across alien worlds." —Kirkus, starred review
"Come to The Stardust Grail for Indiana Jones-style outer space heist adventure, stay for the sensitively drawn characters and thoughtful exploration of other forms of life far beyond our own—Yume Kitasei's second novel is an engaging, fascinating story that you don't want to miss." —Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of Chosen Ones
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 2025-01-07
not my cup of tea
the writing was uninteresting and sometimes clumsy. The plot was okay, I guess, but managed somehow to be both grandiose and a little silly. Overall, I just failed to be engaged by the story. Maybe I just don't like exciting adventure yarns any more.
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