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ash_books25's review
3.0
I liked the book, I was confused at some parts. Overall it was an excellent book!
hayleybeale's review
3.0
Noa had gone to bed in Seattle and wakes up...in an astronaut’s suit outside the spaceship Qriosity which, he is informed by DJ, another mystified teen, is about to explode. Ricocheting from one crisis to the next, Noa and his new friend DJ, learn that they’re stuck in space with no way of getting back to earth.
Later Noa finds a girl, Jenny, locked in a bathroom and the three of them have a series of episodic adventures including battling an Alien-esque monster, getting stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop, and Noa’s descent into apathy and depression. Through it all DJ nurses a crush on Noa, which Noa, suffering from a traumatic relationship on earth, is unable to return. But then they come across a high school in outer space and things get really weird.
This odd mix of science fiction, homage, and space soap opera didn’t quite work for me. While I enjoyed some of the individual episodes, I wasn’t particularly gripped by the overarching mystery and while the resolution was clever it came out of nowhere.
I did appreciate that Noa and DJ’s relationship was completely normalized and while Noa is a bit of a pill for much of the time, DJ and Jenny more than make up for it.
I’d certainly recommend this to teens who like wacky adventures, but I’m not sure I’m inclined to seek out any more of Mr Anderson’s novels.
Thanks to Simon & Schuster and Edelweiss for the digital review copy
Later Noa finds a girl, Jenny, locked in a bathroom and the three of them have a series of episodic adventures including battling an Alien-esque monster, getting stuck in a Groundhog Day-esque time loop, and Noa’s descent into apathy and depression. Through it all DJ nurses a crush on Noa, which Noa, suffering from a traumatic relationship on earth, is unable to return. But then they come across a high school in outer space and things get really weird.
This odd mix of science fiction, homage, and space soap opera didn’t quite work for me. While I enjoyed some of the individual episodes, I wasn’t particularly gripped by the overarching mystery and while the resolution was clever it came out of nowhere.
I did appreciate that Noa and DJ’s relationship was completely normalized and while Noa is a bit of a pill for much of the time, DJ and Jenny more than make up for it.
I’d certainly recommend this to teens who like wacky adventures, but I’m not sure I’m inclined to seek out any more of Mr Anderson’s novels.
Thanks to Simon & Schuster and Edelweiss for the digital review copy
juliannapritchard's review
4.0
My younger sibling warned me that I'd read this book quickly, and oh MAN, they weren't kidding. This was WILD. After I started reading this on audio, I read off and on for the first few chapters in the first couple days, but yesterday I read most of the book and today I finished off the last two hours as soon as I got home from school. Anyway--to me, this book shared a lot of vibes with "The Good Place" and "Severance," which are both tv shows and not books, but I digress. I'm obsessed with the trope of two people finding each other over and over again after losing their memories of each other. This book was not what I expected, and the plot twist took me totally by surprise, and yet managed to remain entirely self-consistent. The plot is phenomenal. This book was exactly what I needed this week.
alima's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? No
2.0
Only chose this bc of Kevin Free!! This was almost a DNF for me because listening to literal hours of Noah being so incredibly annoying in the first half was tough to say the least. It gets better but still way too long. I only finished this in order to check off a prompt for an audiobook challenge I’m doing.
mssunnyskies's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
jamiemidge's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
kayla_graph21's review
1.0
This was not my cup of tea. I didn't really get the point of the story and nothing really happened.
tinynavajo's review
4.0
TW: Rape
This is a roller coaster of a ride about three teens who wake up in a spaceship with no ideas how they ended up there and they have to figure out how to keep themselves from dying. Along the way they learn to trust, to fall in love, and that found family is just as important, if not moreso, then blood family.
There also the themes that memories are what make us, us. Reminds me slightly of a book called The Book of M and the importance of memory. Overall, an interesting read!
This is a roller coaster of a ride about three teens who wake up in a spaceship with no ideas how they ended up there and they have to figure out how to keep themselves from dying. Along the way they learn to trust, to fall in love, and that found family is just as important, if not moreso, then blood family.
There also the themes that memories are what make us, us. Reminds me slightly of a book called The Book of M and the importance of memory. Overall, an interesting read!