A review by capyval
A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson

Did not finish book. Stopped at 64%.

DNF at 64%

While I'm a bit curious to know how this book ends, I'm also very bored. The unlikeable characters don't help, I can't stand any of the 3 kids. At this point of the book, only a few mysteries were explained, with very poor ideas behind. Like

the time loop situation, which also made no sense that only Noa could notice.

The book is quite male centered, Jenny is incredibly secondary as a character. Early on the book the two guys make an important decision without her present, which to me felt very wrong. And, if there was an explanation closer to the end of the book of why two recurrent female characters have the same name (confusing af), and why all the 3 kids are from the US, well... Those explanations were needed earlier, because the book looks very silly without a reason for those things.

DJ at one point

agreed with the medical machine to drug Noa when suffering from extreme anxiety, even if Noa himself was saying not to. Noa then says the machine did that, but DJ was saying Noa needed it, and was not trying to help him to get free from the medical machine... This book is messy.

I was planning to actually finish listening to this audiobook, and give it 2 stars, but life is too short.