Release Date: July 3, 2018
Pages: 290
Rating:💜💜💜💜💜
Buy it: Amazon | Book Depository
Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship travelling to a new planet, on a mission to establish a second home for humanity. Alone in space, she is the loneliest girl in the universe until she hears about a new ship which has launched from Earth - with a single passenger on board. A boy called J. But as their relationship grows, mysteries about who J is start to arise. Sometimes, there's something worse than being alone...
This book was something else. I went into it a little wary, because I very rarely read sci-fi, and the last one I read was absolutely awful. However, this one far exceeded my expectations (as you can see by my rating). It was quite literally out of this world.
This book is about learning to be yourself by yourself, about learning not to be lonely, and about being absolutely terrified with no one to help you. It plays on your worst fears, creating feelings of pure loneliness just by placing the right words on the page. I read this at night whilst on a road trip, and the fear that I felt reading this book was almost crippling (I didn't talk for about 2 hours because I was so hooked by this book, which is quite an achievement for me!)
The problem with trying to review this book is that it is best if you going into it knowing as little as possible. I actually bought this book over the summer, and forgot about it until I was going through my bookshelves and looking for books to get rid of. I thought it was a shame to get rid of it without at least trying the first chapter, so I picked up there and then to try out the first chapter. And boy was I shocked by what went down. This book is packed with so many twists, turns and the most mysterious story line I've read in a while. Therefore, I recommend that you go into the book having only read the blurb (and this review, obviously!)
What I will say is that this is a sweet and representative book. Romy is one of the most relatable characters I've ever met, with her anxiety being the best written disorder I've ever read about. She appears in control of her anxiety, and you can't believe that she suffers from anxiety, and then the next second she is on the floor unable to breathe because the universe seems to big. I also loved that she was this nerdy little girl who wrote fan-fiction and seen her favourite TV show so many times she had memorised the lines, because it once again made her more relatable. Romy could have been a completely unrelatable character, as she literally lives in space and is trying to re-establish humanity on a different planet, but this familiarity of a nerdy girl made me realise the amount of trauma she is going. Also, Romy is the biggest romantic in the world and I adored the romance throughout the novel. I don't think I've shipped two characters as hard as these ones.
In conclusion, I loved this book and it has fuelled a new urge in me to read more sci-fi books. The book is just as gorgeous as the cover, and I think Lauren James has really developed as a writer. I think this book is perfect for people who are trying to move from young adult contemporaries to sci-fi books because it acts a mash-up of both the genres. As someone who didn't particularly like sci-fi you can trust me when I say that this was a great introductory sci-fi novel.
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