The Darkness Outside Us

Hardcover, 416 pages

Published June 1, 2021 by Katherine Tegen Books.

ISBN:
978-0-06-288828-0
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5 stars (5 reviews)

5 editions

Good Mystery and Character Study, a Little Shallow on the Worldbuilding

4 stars

This was very enjoyable sci-fi that wasn't quite as "hard" as it thought it was. The author consulted with NASA and gave a pretty good look at what long term space travel would be like, but some issues were pure magic or were handwaved. I agree with one of the prominent reviews here that there was no story reason for the characters to be 17 years old.

Making this a US/Soviet retro-futuristic conflict was an interesting choice that I'm thinking over.

Choosing the name "Cusk" was unfortunate.

This was good enough that I'll read the sequel when it comes out, but I wonder where the sequel can go. This is a pretty closed loop of a story. Seems difficult to come up with a new mystery for the next book.

Also, if you're going to have sex on a spacecraft, and there's a zero G area, you're going to try …

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5 stars

Wow this was absolutely not what I expected! Honestly I couldn't let go of this book and went through it in two days as I couldn't bear to wait before knowing what would happen to Ambrose and Kodiak. I truly loved this book from start to finish and it was able to surprise me a lot while bringing tears to my eyes. Thanks for this great story!