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joshhall13's review
3.0
It's good. A genre buster book.
To sci-fi fans, this won't be sci-fi, rather it will read more like charcater driven fiction (in space).
To fiction and mystery fans, this book will be very sci-fi. Due to the author's inclusion of space travel and some other plot points (omitted for spoilers).
Overall enjoyable, but for my personal taste (sci-fi speculation), it doesn't hit the mark consistently enough.
However, this book will make a great NetFlix movie or series. Hope to see it on the big screen one day.
To sci-fi fans, this won't be sci-fi, rather it will read more like charcater driven fiction (in space).
To fiction and mystery fans, this book will be very sci-fi. Due to the author's inclusion of space travel and some other plot points (omitted for spoilers).
Overall enjoyable, but for my personal taste (sci-fi speculation), it doesn't hit the mark consistently enough.
However, this book will make a great NetFlix movie or series. Hope to see it on the big screen one day.
mialeyden's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
5.0
After having a bad experience with my first Joe Hart book, I was hesitant about starting another one. However, this one was a joy to read. The concept was interesting, I liked the protagonist and the conclusion was satisfying.
I was right there for Gillian being salty and passive aggressive with Carlson the entire time for taking her to Mars without her consent instead of just forgiving and forgetting immediately, which seems to be the tendency in other books. I also hope Gillian finds a way at some point to let her sister know that she and her daughter are alive and safe. And last, Easton travelling the other way at the end was simply fantastic. Big smile on my face with that one.
This one was an easy 5 stars.
This one was an easy 5 stars.
nate_taylor's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Violence
Moderate: Drug abuse and Addiction
marilynw's review against another edition
4.0
Obscura is a book about a successful doctor who's husband has died of a new type of dementia and whose young daughter is now dying of the disease too. The last years her research has focused on curing this disease and her work had drawn the attention of members of NASA, due to dementia like symptoms in space. On top of the doctor's grief about her husband and daughter, she deals with addiction, paranoia, dishonesty from those who want her help.
The book is told in chapters that bounce around in time. I found it an easy read and the timeline changes were easy for me to understand. I didn't want to put the book down and things became especially frightening once Gillian is in space. Add in hallucinations to her addiction and her quest to find out why people are lying to her, on top of being isolated while the other crew members are in status and the spaceship seems like closed in horror house. Things get even worse when she finds out they are going much farther from Earth than she was told they'd be going and she is accused of murder.
The only thing about the book that I didn't enjoy was the extremely graphic violence. I saw the reasons for the violence but I would have liked the book even better if the descriptions of the body damage had been toned down.
Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for this ARC
The book is told in chapters that bounce around in time. I found it an easy read and the timeline changes were easy for me to understand. I didn't want to put the book down and things became especially frightening once Gillian is in space. Add in hallucinations to her addiction and her quest to find out why people are lying to her, on top of being isolated while the other crew members are in status and the spaceship seems like closed in horror house. Things get even worse when she finds out they are going much farther from Earth than she was told they'd be going and she is accused of murder.
The only thing about the book that I didn't enjoy was the extremely graphic violence. I saw the reasons for the violence but I would have liked the book even better if the descriptions of the body damage had been toned down.
Thank you to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for this ARC
barbtrek's review against another edition
5.0
A very creepy science & unique fiction thriller. A few minor things bothered me with the storyline & main character but overall I thought this was great.
jogutierrz's review against another edition
2.0
fun book, some aspects were a bit silly and "trope-y". I think it would have worked better if it hadn't taken itself so seriously.
Spoiler
The point of this mission is to save humanity right? And yet it was so poorly planned - Gillian deciding last minute to not go into stasis? Not accurately tracking when people are shifting? In a book that tried to ground itself in reality/near future, these felt like major plot holes. But if the book had a more.. starship troopers-esque setting, I think it might have worked better... You know, lean into the campy-ness a bit more. Still it was a really fun and quick read. Can't say I didn't enjoy it!saltycorpse's review against another edition
5.0
I highly enjoyed this, it was a tense and unsettling page-turner with notes of Solaris, Sunshine, and Event Horizon. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys space horror.
courtsport3000's review against another edition
5.0
I don’t even know where to begin... so creepy, so twisty, so thrilling- I could not put this book down!!