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

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This book will send you in a whirlwind of emotions.
It starts off tense and thriller-like, with the main characters mysteriously stranded on a malfunctioning spaceship, fighting for their lives.
Then it gets lighthearted, as you begin to think that the conversations and events on the ship are too perfect / slash convenient for real life and stop treating them seriously.
Then it gets tense and sad and tragic and hopeless.
And finishes off
on a hopeful note, I guess? but it's still a pick-your-reality ending (although it's not the most tragic, fortunately; I hate tearjerker endings)

And has funny bits sprinkled throughout.
Was that a love story? critique on capitalism? 
dystopian reality tv future?
  dystopian -- arh, I don't know? a comment on the meaninglessness and the meaningfulness of our lives?
Either way, it was more than I expected.

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