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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
This book was completely unbelievable. Everything that everyone said or did felt unrealistic.
-> NASA sends teenagers using a lucky draw from all over the world (but not from US) to moon. Lol
-> Parents are eager to send their kids on a space mission where they may not come back from. How many shuttles have blasted to pieces?
-> All the teenagers who got selected are going only because they want to get out of their country or because they want to become famous. Not because they are interested in science or space or moon. When the main characters themselves are not excited about the mission, why would the readers be?
One of the characters is so rude to her parents in this book! I wouldn’t even want teenagers to read this book. Maybe I have seen and read too many first contact/alien/space books and movies that I felt this book was stupid. The writing or in this case the translation was atrocious. The sentences and scenes were so badly written that it was a slog to read. It took 140 pages to launch their space shuttle and 162 pages to land on moon. By then I had lost interest in the book. There are better books and movies out there on the same topic.
-> NASA sends teenagers using a lucky draw from all over the world (but not from US) to moon. Lol
-> Parents are eager to send their kids on a space mission where they may not come back from. How many shuttles have blasted to pieces?
-> All the teenagers who got selected are going only because they want to get out of their country or because they want to become famous. Not because they are interested in science or space or moon. When the main characters themselves are not excited about the mission, why would the readers be?
One of the characters is so rude to her parents in this book! I wouldn’t even want teenagers to read this book. Maybe I have seen and read too many first contact/alien/space books and movies that I felt this book was stupid. The writing or in this case the translation was atrocious. The sentences and scenes were so badly written that it was a slog to read. It took 140 pages to launch their space shuttle and 162 pages to land on moon. By then I had lost interest in the book. There are better books and movies out there on the same topic.
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Just felt stilted and really shallow. We had two of the characters begin to fall for each other, for basically no reason. They have this starting romance holding hands/kissing for a handful of pages and then one of them dies and there's basically no reaction from the other person. It's just weird.
Also there's a translation error they have something pop up on the screen in Japanese and they have it in katakana (the foreign words alphabet) rather than hirigana/kanji and it just felt like a really dumb error.
Also there's a translation error they have something pop up on the screen in Japanese and they have it in katakana (the foreign words alphabet) rather than hirigana/kanji and it just felt like a really dumb error.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I honestly don’t know what to say about this book other than I was disappointed. I was expecting there to be more of basically everything when we actually got to the moon. The premise was interesting but that’s honestly the only thing I can say good about this book. It was just okay overall.
I didn’t like the characters either and in all honesty if the characters had been likeable I probably would of liked this a tiny bit more.
I should not have read this book, I didn't even know it was more horror than sci-fi, and I'm not good with any type of creepy. Especially alien creepy. Now my heart is beating a million miles per second and I'm afraid I might see my doppelganger out somewhere. Good (?) book but would never read again.
WELL.
What an exciting book, and it kept getting more and more tense right up until the end. It took me a little while to read the first section, but once they got into space I was absolutely hooked and finished it in a couple days (to the point where I was up past 3am reading it). Recommended if you want a relatively quick, gripping read! I won't look at the moon in the same way again.
What I loved:
- Suspenseful, intense, creepy
- The design of the book itself was great, and added to the eeriness
- Chapters from multiple characters' perspectives
- The setting of the moon and DARLAH 2
What I didn't like so much:
- Took a little while to get going
- I sometimes got a bit lost in the action-oriented parts; the writing became a bit unclear for me
- It is always scarier for me when I don't know what the danger is - when my mind is free to make up the worst-case scenario. So when things are revealed it always becomes less scary for me (I guess that's more of an issue with horror in general)
**FURTHER POINTS CONTAIN HUGE, BOOK-RUINING SPOILERS**
What I loved:
- That it was based on reality: the 6EQUJ5 signal, that we haven't been back to the moon -- and why not?
- The ending not being a traditional happy one
What I didn't like so much:
- The romance element seemed sudden and a little forced
- I think the doppelgängers went a bit over the top trying to be scary and vicious - it was more scary for me when they were more blank/emotionless
What an exciting book, and it kept getting more and more tense right up until the end. It took me a little while to read the first section, but once they got into space I was absolutely hooked and finished it in a couple days (to the point where I was up past 3am reading it). Recommended if you want a relatively quick, gripping read! I won't look at the moon in the same way again.
What I loved:
- Suspenseful, intense, creepy
- The design of the book itself was great, and added to the eeriness
- Chapters from multiple characters' perspectives
- The setting of the moon and DARLAH 2
What I didn't like so much:
- Took a little while to get going
- I sometimes got a bit lost in the action-oriented parts; the writing became a bit unclear for me
- It is always scarier for me when I don't know what the danger is - when my mind is free to make up the worst-case scenario. So when things are revealed it always becomes less scary for me (I guess that's more of an issue with horror in general)
**FURTHER POINTS CONTAIN HUGE, BOOK-RUINING SPOILERS**
What I loved:
- That it was based on reality: the 6EQUJ5 signal, that we haven't been back to the moon -- and why not?
- The ending not being a traditional happy one
What I didn't like so much:
- The romance element seemed sudden and a little forced
- I think the doppelgängers went a bit over the top trying to be scary and vicious - it was more scary for me when they were more blank/emotionless
Review Taken From The Pewter Wolf
NASA is throwing a lottery of a lifetime. It is offering the chance for three teenagers to get a seat on a shuttle to go back to the moon. The first shuttle to return to the moon in over forty years.
So when Mia, Andrel and Midori win the chance of the lifetime (each with their own reasons to go to the moon), none of them realise that there was a reason why NASA hasn't returned to the moon in over forty years, and neither do they realise that they might not get the chance to return home...
Now, this won a huge award in native homeland of Norway (and with our sudden appetite for translation [eyes on The Killing and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]), will this book get the same attention?
Well, this book is a strange creature. I'm going to be truthful. This is hard to think about review as this is an odd creature. As a translation, I do like it. It didn't feel jarring to read so hats off to the translator of this book!
And this book has an odd grit to it which, for me, fall for this book. It was the sense of foreboding, where you know something awful is going to happen with the prologue and the chapters that follow the mysterious Mr Himmelfarb. But it's not till we get to the moon when things slowly begin to unravel and go, "Oh!"
This isn't an instant chiller read. It takes its time and, for me, it wasn't till the last 100-odd pages (and me reading this quite late one night) before things really began to get creepy. But it's the sense of foreboding that makes you keep turning the pages. You know something awful is going to happen, but you keep turning the pages, going "Please don't let him/her who's next... Not them..."
It might not be the instant chiller read I wanted, but I do like this book, and I hope Atom gets more translation for YA readers (for I think we're a smart bunch!). It became creepy and it's refreshing to read a book that takes it's time before it pulls the rug from under you. You might not want to read the moon chapters late at night, though... And you might not want to go to the moon after reading this...
NASA is throwing a lottery of a lifetime. It is offering the chance for three teenagers to get a seat on a shuttle to go back to the moon. The first shuttle to return to the moon in over forty years.
So when Mia, Andrel and Midori win the chance of the lifetime (each with their own reasons to go to the moon), none of them realise that there was a reason why NASA hasn't returned to the moon in over forty years, and neither do they realise that they might not get the chance to return home...
Now, this won a huge award in native homeland of Norway (and with our sudden appetite for translation [eyes on The Killing and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]), will this book get the same attention?
Well, this book is a strange creature. I'm going to be truthful. This is hard to think about review as this is an odd creature. As a translation, I do like it. It didn't feel jarring to read so hats off to the translator of this book!
And this book has an odd grit to it which, for me, fall for this book. It was the sense of foreboding, where you know something awful is going to happen with the prologue and the chapters that follow the mysterious Mr Himmelfarb. But it's not till we get to the moon when things slowly begin to unravel and go, "Oh!"
This isn't an instant chiller read. It takes its time and, for me, it wasn't till the last 100-odd pages (and me reading this quite late one night) before things really began to get creepy. But it's the sense of foreboding that makes you keep turning the pages. You know something awful is going to happen, but you keep turning the pages, going "Please don't let him/her who's next... Not them..."
It might not be the instant chiller read I wanted, but I do like this book, and I hope Atom gets more translation for YA readers (for I think we're a smart bunch!). It became creepy and it's refreshing to read a book that takes it's time before it pulls the rug from under you. You might not want to read the moon chapters late at night, though... And you might not want to go to the moon after reading this...
YA? check. Sci-fi featuring teens in space? check. Something going horribly wrong? check check check! This book was pure entertainment. Could be a movie. It's not going to win awards for its writing style but it's pretty damn thrilling. I couldn't put it down.
i have mixed feelings about this book. it reminded me slightly of the Alien movies, kinda like a YA take on those, which made me very interested in the story, but at the same time i felt like there were some wacky points to it. the characters lives and reasons behind their decision to go to the moon were a little cliche. i would have liked to see a more original character be a part of the mission. the ending too was predictable. at the end of the day id say this book deserves a solid 3.5
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No