The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
The Darkness Outside Us, Eliot Schrefer
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The Darkness Outside Us

Author: Eliot Schrefer

Narrator: James Fouhey

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 06/01/2021

Synopsis

They Both Die at the End meets Gravity in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer. Stonewall Honor Award winner!Two boys, alone in space. Sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission.Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor with no memory of a launch. There’s more that doesn’t add up: evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship’s operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed—not when he’s rescuing his own sister.In order to survive the ship’s secrets, Ambrose and Kodiak will need to work together and learn to trust each other . . . especially once they discover what they are truly up against. Love might be the only way to survive.* Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of the Year * A Booklist Editor's Choice of the Year * A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book of the Year * A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year *

About Eliot Schrefer

Eliot Schrefer is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for kids and teens, including The Darkness Outside Us and its sequel, The Brightness Between Us, as well as Charming Young Man, Endangered, and Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. His books have twice been named finalists for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and have garnered a Printz Honor, a Stonewall Honor, and the Green Earth Book Award. He is on the faculty of the creative writing MFA programs at Hamline University and Fairleigh Dickinson University and lives with his husband in New York City. Visit him online at eliotschrefer.com. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by ;3 on September 30, 2024

4.5 there is so much to unpack here.... truly a crime that this book seems to be marketed as cutesy space romcom with gays bc this was bonkers. it made me paranoid at 3 in the morning!!!......more

Goodreads review by Lauren on June 14, 2021

The Darkness Outside Us was the most breathtaking sci-fi I’ve read all year. An unexpectedly introspective tale balancing humour and unimaginable grief—pain with great payoff. The protagonists—Ambrose and Kodiak—stole my heart from the get-go with their affable banter; this was an experience beyond......more

Goodreads review by tappkalina on August 03, 2023

This book has no buisness being this good. Based on the reviews I expected something destroyingly sad, but what I got was a twisted mystery thriller thing. In space! It was still sad, yes, but I was too busy focusing on not letting my mind blown to let more than a few tears free. There were tears, do......more

Goodreads review by Martin on October 31, 2022

OMG, I am writing a review with shaking fingers. What an incredibly, incredibly awesome book!! Safe to say, it is clearly my favorite read this year by far. It's an incredibly powerful and epic story. You have to read it before it gets turned into a Netflix sci fi drama (with actors who just won't do......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on June 16, 2021

This was so good and so much more than it's been marketed as. Sure this has a romance, but it is such an engaging, dangerous, and intriguing story about two boys in space who have to figure out how to survive together. I could not put this book down and I was freaking out with every turn of the page......more

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