it asks not just why we’re here, if we actually having meaning, but also what life is, and what defines life. I’m splitting this review into three parts: the worldbuilding, the plot, and the characters/relationship.

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Each page reveals puzzle pieces that lead to a secret much scarier and darker than anything I would have imagined. this book is compared to They Both Die at the End and The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, and although i haven't read TBDATE, i'd say that's a pretty accurate comparison.Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Darkness Outside Us written by Eliot Schrefer which was published in 2021-6-1. Shortly thereafter, Ambrose reenables OS, who airlocks them, but not before Ambrose straps himself in bed with Kodiak. Earth's two remaining nations, Fédération and Dimokratía, assemble a joint mission to investigate, sending a single spacefarer each aboard the Coordinated Endeavor. It’s almost like it needed to cut part one down, and have a few more parts where they don’t yet know what’s going on, just to build more suspense.

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It soon becomes clear that if either astronaut hopes to survive, they must put their differences aside and work together to uncover the dark secrets behind their mission. All of that said, there is a romance in this book, and I fell in love with Kodiak and Ambrose as they fell in love with each other. how i did not anticipate for this book to impact me so deeply but not a day goes by where i don’t think about it. This kid acts like a ten year old in a space suit instead of the heir to the space traveling/robotic science dynasty he belongs to.

There’s more that doesn’t add up: Evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship’s operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. it also gave me intense emotional whiplash - from laughing one moment, to full on sobbing, to feeling strange and staring at the ceiling. how the human heart perseveres in spite of true loneliness, desperation, unimaginable grief, and has the capacity to remain tender even in the harshest circumstances.

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His books have been named to the NPR “best of the year” list, the ALA best fiction list for young adults, and the Chicago Public Library’s “Best of the Best.

Has a Type: Ambrose specifies that his type are fey-ish, androgynous people (both his previous lover and the actor in his go-to porno are also indicated to be non-binary). It also conveys important philosophical aspects, successfully applying Plato's famous allegory of the cave to Ambrose and Kodiak's unique situation.

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Yes, it’s emotional and completely heartbreaking but it’s more sci-fi than romance which honestly I’m not mad about. Yes, the first 40% or so was a little rocky, but once the end of part one hit, I was fully invested. In fact I got a domestic fiction about two boys falling in love and raising a family on a distant planet.The final parts of the story include a time skip of a year to when the first human zygote gets finally born. Notable for being an Adam and Eve plot with two men, and one that depended on being two men; if they sent a spacefarer who could become pregnant, they ran the risk of in-space pregnancies and all the complications that could arise from them. In one pair, Kodiak dies of radiation poisoning from continually manually navigating the ship in an unshielded room after they disable OS.