A review by renkeeling
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I am actually obsessed with this book, ngl the first 50 pages were painful & honesty I have a quite a few things that I didn’t like about this book, but this book got five stars purely because of the absolute mind fuckery reading this on an airplane was an EXPERIENCE this book had me questioning if I was real, what is even life, what is the human experience, I have no idea. The twists in this book were INSANE I was HOOKED after around the 100 page mark this book really had me on my toes the entire time. Also while the “gays in space” definitely wasn’t the most prominent aspect of the book, I think there was a bit of an underrated theme of love, and finding your soulmate (trying to avoid what I really want to say because of spoilers, but if you’ve read the book you’ll know what I’m referring to) which I REALLY loved.