That said, Across the Star-Swept Sea completely impressed me with its glamorous world-building, beautiful characters and action-packed story. So that one missing star caused by my absentmindedness really shouldn’t hinder your impression of this amazing book. I really did want to love it as I did For Darkness Shows the Stars, its predecessor, and well, I did love it but my mind was just… elsewhere at some points of the story. Let me just begin by saying that I probably would’ve given Across a Star-Swept Sea 5 stars had I not been a little distracted while reading it. In this thrilling adventure inspired by The Scarlet Pimpernel, Diana Peterfreund creates an exquisitely rendered world where nothing is as it seems and two teens with very different pasts fight for a future only they dare to imagine. His darkest secret could plunge both islands into a new dark age, and Persis realizes that when it comes to Justen Helo, she’s not only risking her heart, she’s risking the world she’s sworn to protect.
Though Persis is falling for Justen, she can’t risk showing him her true self, especially once she learns he’s hiding far more than simply his disenchantment with his country’s revolution and his undeniable attraction to the silly socialite he’s pretending to love. The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo… is her most dangerous mission ever. On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake.
The revolutionaries’ weapon is a drug that damages their enemies’ brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction-the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars-is a distant memory.
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