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A review by ohemgeebooks
Alone Out Here by Riley Redgate
2.0
Space. The final frontier.
I’ll admit to a certain keen interest to YA Science Fiction which comes from a literary-realized fear of being alone in space. It gets the heart bump-a-thumping and even though I’m not generally a thrill seeker, I can’t help, but get extremely excited when I come across a new book like this.
Pitched as a sci-fi Lord of the Flies, the premise promises an apocalyptic escape into space gone awry. When a volcanic eruption threatens the world as we know it, political leaders and scientists from across the globe work to build a fleet to travel a select population into the unknown, seeking a new world. When teens are brought in to a weekend field trip, chaos erupts early leaving only the teens to flee in an unfinished prototype.
The first few chapters were outstanding—all of the heart racing thrills you’d expect from catastrophe of epic proportions. Unfortunately as the Earth gets left behind, the tension unwinds and it becomes what you’d expect from a group of teens on board a ship, especially when one is the president’s daughter and the others all have their own opinions. Politics aside, do the teens have the wherewithal to overcome certain obstacles in order to begin again? It was difficult to stay awake long enough to find out.
I predicted this book to either explore that idea, teens attempting to figure things out with a nod to hope for the future or go all out FantasticLand with a desperate fight for survival, but the ending took a surprising abrupt twist that left me feeling disappointed I took the time to read it at all. Two takeaways—teens sometimes don’t make the best decisions and they get acne without soap.
As far as rated reviews go, I may be alone out here, but for me this book proved to be an apocalyptic disaster.
Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review.
I’ll admit to a certain keen interest to YA Science Fiction which comes from a literary-realized fear of being alone in space. It gets the heart bump-a-thumping and even though I’m not generally a thrill seeker, I can’t help, but get extremely excited when I come across a new book like this.
Pitched as a sci-fi Lord of the Flies, the premise promises an apocalyptic escape into space gone awry. When a volcanic eruption threatens the world as we know it, political leaders and scientists from across the globe work to build a fleet to travel a select population into the unknown, seeking a new world. When teens are brought in to a weekend field trip, chaos erupts early leaving only the teens to flee in an unfinished prototype.
The first few chapters were outstanding—all of the heart racing thrills you’d expect from catastrophe of epic proportions. Unfortunately as the Earth gets left behind, the tension unwinds and it becomes what you’d expect from a group of teens on board a ship, especially when one is the president’s daughter and the others all have their own opinions. Politics aside, do the teens have the wherewithal to overcome certain obstacles in order to begin again? It was difficult to stay awake long enough to find out.
I predicted this book to either explore that idea, teens attempting to figure things out with a nod to hope for the future or go all out FantasticLand with a desperate fight for survival, but the ending took a surprising abrupt twist that left me feeling disappointed I took the time to read it at all. Two takeaways—teens sometimes don’t make the best decisions and they get acne without soap.
As far as rated reviews go, I may be alone out here, but for me this book proved to be an apocalyptic disaster.
Thank you to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review.