We Are Made of Stars

A Novel

By: Rochelle B. Weinstein

Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker, Ron Butler, David de Vries, Megan Tusing, Aasne Vigesaa, Emily Lawrence

Secrets, lies, and second chances are served up beneath the stars at a picturesque mountain getaway in this powerful novel about love and family by the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends.

At the Vis Ta Vie inn, Reneé and Jean-Paul De La Rue face the daunting decision to close their beloved home for good.

They’re not the only ones going through a season of change, though. Their guests include three couples in crisis: Hollywood celebs Leo and Penny are spending their silver anniversary together while on the cusp of divorce. Lucy, a practical-minded therapist, and Henry, an astronomer with his head in the stars, are struggling to find common ground. And former lawyer and current stay-at-home mom Sienna and charismatic sports agent Adam look perfect but are hiding rifts of their own. Thrown into the mix are self-absorbed single mother Cassidy and her sullen fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosalie.

The stage is set for a week of betrayals, regrets, and shocking truths that can rend the heart or heal it. Vis Ta Vie—live your life—captures what it means to love through the darkness, and to find the light even after the magic fades.

©2025 Rochelle B. Weinstein. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Weinstein’s story centers on four couples in crisis who must decide whether their secrets will heal them or forever fracture their hearts.”—Country Living

“Secrets and truths come to light at a luxurious and remote mountain inn. As conflict bubbles to the surface, everyone at the inn will have to face facts long-buried.”—BookBub

“Rochelle B. Weinstein introduces a host of characters who each struggle with their own futures and revised ideals. She juxtaposes these different personas, concerns, and revelations with finesse so that readers become thoroughly immersed in their lives and futures…Readers will find this week-long foray an exceptional portrait of survival and reinvention that reinforces its characters and their lives with thought-provoking messages of life, death, and the challenges that lie in-between.”—Midwest Book Review

Boring

Basically was a history of several people and if there was some hint of a plot it took the author way too long to get to the point. Boring. maybe it's just me.

Loved it

This was such a good story. It was filled with many emotions and great narrators. They did a wonderful job of keeping this book alive. Making you feel the emotions.

Well developed characters

We Are Made of Stars is an enjoyable book with multiple story lines and characters who are very human. The contrived voices to indicate different characters detracted somewhat. Outcomes for the storylines are very predictable but nonetheless the author keeps the reader listening by having characters grow and change throughout. Sometimes with this many characters (8), it can be hard to remember who is who and what their plot line is. Not so with Weinstein’s writing. Because of the well-developed characters, it is easy to keep track of the various story lines and switch between them from chapter to chapter and to understand how they continually mesh together to bring this story to life.

Love the Boone references!

Love how Rochelle uses her North Carolina and university of Maryland experiences to bring her stories to life .

Feel good story that isn’t cheesy…

Great story, nice to have the different actors with different accents to help keep all the characters separate. I could definitely relate to the characters at times and it could get hard to listen to them work through their trauma. Loved the space theme throughout and that it had a happy ending!