The Darkness Outside Us
Ratings37
Average rating4
This book is not what you think it is and part of me absolutely loved it and part of me never wants to read a scifi book ever again
but also this book also had an almost identical plotline to another 2021 YA release I've read this year *cough* [b:The Ones We're Meant to Find|44084665|The Ones We're Meant to Find|Joan He|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1600354595l/44084665._SY75_.jpg|68554141], if you really wanted to know honestly that is kind of unfortunate for both books but at least this one was lgbtq+
This was awesome and it gets 5 stars for the amazing story and the plot twists.
Stop comparing this book to ‘the loneliest girl in the universe' which was such a mess. I hated that book more and more with each page but this one I fell in love with deeper.
Audiobook narration was great. Everyone sounded different and had different accents so it was fun.
—minor spoilers—
No one updated their BIOS while the damn spaceship was running
Okay it mostly won me over in the end because the main trope is a favorite of mine. I have complaints about the main character and writing, but it was good overall.
Wow this was absolutely not what I expected! Honestly I couldn't let go of this book and went through it in two days as I couldn't bear to wait before knowing what would happen to Ambrose and Kodiak. I truly loved this book from start to finish and it was able to surprise me a lot while bringing tears to my eyes. Thanks for this great story!
Without a shred of doubt, this is one of the best things I've ever read.
And if you think you know what this book is going to be about, you're probably wrong. This story shattered my soul into microscopic pieces, but soon enough lent out a hand to mend it back together.
I didn't expect a book like this from the description. Not at all.
I can't say much but I really recommend reading it.
It's also in the wrong category like other reviews already state. The only YA part is that they are 17, everything else is a lot heavier than you think.
Whoops! 👎🏻
*SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW AHOY. *
On the plus side, I'm glad that clones in space is indeed turning out to be a viable subgenre I can look forward to reading again in the future, as this makes the fifth book I've read in that theme in the past couple years. I believe I'm in the minority here, but this is not the type of story structure I can enjoy. The author spent nearly 200 pages building up a connection between the reader and the characters and their relationship, and the mystery they were solving, and then HE BLEW ‘EM OUT AN AIRLOCK! I don't care if the sentiment was supposed to be that it would add to the romance that whichever version of themselves they were, they would learn to work together/love each other, that it's supposed to build suspense in the middle of solving the mystery, it reads as redundant to me to repeat certain steps of getting to know each other and realizing something is wrong and trying to solve it, when you could have just written another 50- 100 pages (without the halt in between) where they just discover the clones in the engine room, and then the overall plan and grow closer during that, and then the ultimate ending, and you would not have had to have what reads as a stalling mechanism, to me, in the middle. Just my natural impatience, but I basically called bullshit and started skim reading by the half way point. Read enough to know it followed the story beats on repeat like I was afraid it would as soon as it hit part two. I did give a thorough read to the first exposition/explanation dialogue with OS Prime and the letters. I gather there were reflections on what helps make a long standing successful romantic relationship, how humans/clones can survive knowing that kind of fate, not being able to leave that isolated environment, but if there were golden takeaways I didn't catch any. 🤷🏼♂️ Feel free to consider this a DNF on my part as that's exactly what I felt like doing about half way through.
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