Anna Tschetter

There's so little YA space horror that I'm so thrilled when I get to read some! I can think of like . . . two other titles off the top of my head - 172 Hours on the Moon and Pitch Dark - and this is a worthy addition to that list!

The blurb of "Titanic meets Aliens" is so accurate that I wished that the aliens were a little less Ridley Scott Alien. They're not xenomorphs but the chest bursting felt way too similar to the films. I wish Johnston went a slightly different direction but overall, still really really fun!

I thought this was really funny with some of the illustration gags just working so well. BUT! It bums me out that the characters are SO focused on marriage/finding a man. In the afterword, the author says she was inspired by her friends feeling this way but that she felt it's more important for a woman to be independent. I hope the characters learn this lesson.

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This was really sad. Just a reminder that no amount of wealth can insulate women against intimate partner violence/murder.

I would have given this five stars because it was really well written and when I wasn't listening to it, I was thinking about listening to it but I really hate - HATE - when writers put thoughts/words into the mouths of murder victims. The book ends with Cohen imagining what Jennifer thought as Fotis murdered her and I don't know, it always makes me uncomfortable. We will never know and that sort of thing, while I understand the point, seems better suited to fiction rather than nonfiction.