Hold Back the Stars

Max and Carys have found themselves in a bit of a predicament. They're spiraling through space, together but alone otherwise, with only 90 minutes of oxygen left. How in the world, no pun intended, did they end up in this predicament? This book is told in a mixture of present day space dilemma and flashbacks into Max and Carys' relationship and how they got from point A to point Holy Crap We're in Mortal Peril.

I did not want to put this book down. I found Katie Khan's writing pretty engrossing and once I started, it was very hard to stop at just 50 pages every day because of my book club. There were parts where the conversation between the two main characters didn't really make sense and there were definitely scenes were I wanted to slap them both, but it was very much a character driven book and how two worlds, essentially, collided– what with Max being a staunch utopian and Carys having been raised outside of Europia's utopian society until her late teens– and the conflicts and developments that can occur because of that.

I... just.. the ending though.... that ending...