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A review by anastasia_raf
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James. I would give you a description of what the book was about, but I barely remember anything. What I remember were the extreme boredom and disturbing feelings.
Basically, it's about a girl that lives in space and tries to get to "earth 2" she was born in space and never walked on earth. Her mission is to arrive on earth two safely with a spaceship full of embryos, so she can start a new population. Everything was going great until she started receiving emails from an organisation that claimed there was a war on earth and took hold of NASA, etc... Then, she started talking with another commander of another ship that had the same mission and fell in love with him. Now time for spoilers
Plot holes * the lock! How could it be broken and she was still able to get out? (She had cut the wires, so J couldn't enter, she was locked inside and then somehow got out?) Maybe I didn't understand correctly but...
* His presence at the eternity? How was he able to be there when the ship left even though he was stuck and Romy had an advantage AND carry her mother to the ship without her noticing?
Complaints
* is the protagonist kind of sexist? Body shaming?
* the "love interest" was a sick murderer!!!
*The naivete of the young protagonist took a whole new level. I think it dealt with mental illness poorly.
* we had hundreds of pages dedicated to how Romy spent her days and how she felt but not one that deals with her emotions after everything went down? I mean, no one could be okay after all that.
* If I didn't have the audiobook I'm pretty sure I would have DNF it. Nice choice to keep it short.
* The first half felt like we read a YA Sci-Fi book and the other half like a psychological thriller? I-
*The age difference was disturbing!
* I get that she is a girl that never had friends her age and spent all her life living in a spaceship in which half of her life she was completely alone but that would make a person more uneasy of human contact? I mean excited yes but way more worried. If she had lived a bit on earth I would understand her excitement about falling in love but I don't know... Seems kinda off, although we can't forget that she's just sixteen so I guess not that odd?
I don't know. I really don't. Very mixed feelings about this book.
Basically, it's about a girl that lives in space and tries to get to "earth 2" she was born in space and never walked on earth. Her mission is to arrive on earth two safely with a spaceship full of embryos, so she can start a new population. Everything was going great until she started receiving emails from an organisation that claimed there was a war on earth and took hold of NASA, etc... Then, she started talking with another commander of another ship that had the same mission and fell in love with him. Now time for spoilers
Plot holes * the lock! How could it be broken and she was still able to get out? (She had cut the wires, so J couldn't enter, she was locked inside and then somehow got out?) Maybe I didn't understand correctly but...
* His presence at the eternity? How was he able to be there when the ship left even though he was stuck and Romy had an advantage AND carry her mother to the ship without her noticing?
Complaints
* is the protagonist kind of sexist? Body shaming?
* the "love interest" was a sick murderer!!!
*The naivete of the young protagonist took a whole new level. I think it dealt with mental illness poorly.
* we had hundreds of pages dedicated to how Romy spent her days and how she felt but not one that deals with her emotions after everything went down? I mean, no one could be okay after all that.
* If I didn't have the audiobook I'm pretty sure I would have DNF it. Nice choice to keep it short.
* The first half felt like we read a YA Sci-Fi book and the other half like a psychological thriller? I-
*The age difference was disturbing!
* I get that she is a girl that never had friends her age and spent all her life living in a spaceship in which half of her life she was completely alone but that would make a person more uneasy of human contact? I mean excited yes but way more worried. If she had lived a bit on earth I would understand her excitement about falling in love but I don't know... Seems kinda off, although we can't forget that she's just sixteen so I guess not that odd?
I don't know. I really don't. Very mixed feelings about this book.