Star Shipped, Cat Sebastian
Star Shipped, Cat Sebastian
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Star Shipped
A Novel

Author: Cat Sebastian

Narrator: Joel Leslie

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Avon

Published: 03/03/2026


Synopsis

Cat Sebastian’s long-awaited foray into contemporary romance! A witty, emotional, and deliciously slow burn enemies-to-lovers romance between two costars on a popular sci-fi television series. Read by award winning audiobook narrator, Joel Leslie.Simon and Charlie, actors on a long-running sci-fi show, can’t stand one another. Charlie is impetuous, outgoing, and basically feral, and Simon thinks he should have stayed in reality television where he belongs. They’ve spent the better part of a decade quarreling over the spotlight and pretty much everything else, and everybody in the industry knows it. Now that Simon’s contract is finally done, he can move to New York, start fresh with work he actually likes, and get away from Charlie.Simon’s only problem is that people might assume he’s been pushed off the show due to being impossible to work with. And he is kind of difficult to work with. He doesn’t get along with people—unlike Charlie, who somehow tricked everyone on the show into adoring him despite some outrageously bad on-set behavior during the show’s first season. Simon would rather never have to see Charlie again, but reluctantly agrees to stage a very public friendship during the short time before he moves. When Charlie has to leave town to deal with a family emergency, this means Simon comes along. Their road trip brings Simon to places he would never have willingly chosen to visit—and he finds he’s actually not having a terrible time.The more he gets to know Charlie, the more Simon suspects he’s underestimated his former coworker. Simon also realizes that after seven years, Charlie might know him better than anyone ever has. Even stranger, Charlie seems to be starting to actually like him, despite knowing him so well. Still, Simon is about to move three thousand miles away, so whatever’s starting between him and Charlie can’t really amount to anything... right?Tropes:Enemies to LoversOpposites AttractForced ProximitySlow Burn

About Cat Sebastian

Cat Sebastian is an award-winning author of queer romance. Cat’s books include Star Shipped, We Could Be So Good and You Should Be So Lucky, and have received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Booklist. We Could Be So Good won a Lambda Literary Award in 2024. In her spare time, she acquires too many houseplants and misplaces things.


Reviews

Goodreads review by B.K. on September 06, 2025

Without a doubt, one of my top romances of the year. Absolutely phenomenal.......more

Goodreads review by Ali on March 03, 2026

Look. I’m a really nosy person. I love knowing people’s business, and if an entire book is me being a fly on the wall of someone’s apartment while he slowly figures out that he thinks his co-worker of several years is hot and nice and maybe not quite so much of a himbo as previously thought (still a......more

Goodreads review by Lance on December 27, 2025

4.5 stars. Containing Cat Sebastian’s signature tenderness and queer sensibility but this time in a contemporary, cinematic setting, Star Shipped is yet another excellent queer romance worthy of a silver screen.......more

Goodreads review by Fernanda (ivyfer_isreading) on December 15, 2025

It took me a while to get used to the writing, it isn't as flowy as what I'm used to in romance books, but once I got past that start I ate it up.  This was my first Cat Sebastian book, hence the first part about how I'm not used to her writing. I'm not a fan of historical books, but this is contempo......more

Goodreads review by Lina on March 01, 2026

4.5 / 5 Stars I just found a new auto-read author. I am obsessed with Cat Sebastian’s writing and I loved this book. Simon and Charlie star in a space TV show and they cannot stand each other. They have bickered and fought for seven years, but when Simon needs some good publicity so that people don’t......more