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A review by vornaskotti
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
2.0
172 Hours on the Moon started off really strongly: a secret Moon base from the 70's, a NASA publicity stunt of sending three teenagers with astronauts up there to drum up funding, bad and disturbing omens about the mission...
...but somewhere in the middle the book just fell apart. On the whole it is a pretty efficient scifi horror novel, and if I had read this when I was 12 or 13, I wouldn't have slept for a week. It's just a shame that the story ends up making quite little sense, and the science goes sour in rather unnecessary and stupid ways. Moreover there's a weird undercurrent of "science bad, something watching over us good" vibe in the story, which really put me off it.
172 Hours on the Moon has and intriguing premise and some pretty effective horror scenes, but that's about it. Can't recommend.
...but somewhere in the middle the book just fell apart. On the whole it is a pretty efficient scifi horror novel, and if I had read this when I was 12 or 13, I wouldn't have slept for a week. It's just a shame that the story ends up making quite little sense, and the science goes sour in rather unnecessary and stupid ways. Moreover there's a weird undercurrent of "science bad, something watching over us good" vibe in the story, which really put me off it.
172 Hours on the Moon has and intriguing premise and some pretty effective horror scenes, but that's about it. Can't recommend.