The Kindred is about an alien race that has created a program called the Kindred program where people in the universe are connected to each other from birth. This isn't to say that it wasn't a solid read, but I did struggle with it a little bit.įrom what I understand, The Kindred isn't a sequel to The Sound of Stars however, they are set in the same world.

I was really looking forward to reading this one because I've heard so many great things about The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow however, I didn't connect with it the way that I anticipated. So this was a hard one for me to both rate and review. But hiding might just be the perfect way to discover the true strength of the Kindred bond and expose a scandal-and a love-that may decide the future of a galaxy. Meeting in person for the first time as they steal a spacecraft and flee amid chaos might not be ideal…and neither is crash-landing on the strange backward planet called Earth. Someone will stop at nothing until he’s dead, which means they’ll target Joy, too. Then the royal family is assassinated, putting Felix next in line for the throne…and accused of the murders. He will exasperate his noble family to the point that they agree to let him choose his own future and finally meet his Kindred face-to-face. A commoner from the lowly planet Hali, she lives a simple life-apart from the notoriety that being Kindred to the nobility’s most infamous playboy brings.ĭuke Felix Hamdi has a plan. To save a galactic kingdom from revolution, Kindred mind-pairings were created to ensure each and every person would be seen and heard, no matter how rich or poor…