The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James

Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to – someone who is light years away?

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 amongst the stars. 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.

Their only communication with each other is via email – and due to the distance between them, their messages take months to transmit across space. And yet Romy finds herself falling in love.

But what does Romy really know about J? And what do the mysterious messages which have started arriving from Earth really mean?

Sometimes, there’s something worse than being alone . . .

The book i needed to get me out of my book slump. I really loved this book, for some context i found it by googling “books about people with anxiety” and chose this one. I loved feeling so familiar with the struggles she goes through, even though she's like a space baby, lone survivor, and only hope of a new world. I'm not those things lol but anxiety sure does the same things to me and her. Amazing.

This is not a story about learning to survive on your own. Is this called character development? Hell no!!! Ugggghhhhhh...what was this? The only good part was the last chapter which served as a prologue, I guess. Expand on that, please.Goodreads page for this book has stunning reviews so I picked it up. No, I didn't pick it up thinking it was gonna be space romance. I though it'd be more futuristic and more fun to read than Romy running away from her problems in a circular ship! And don't even get me started on the messed up Computer Science in this. This book was doing fine tillSpoiler Romy boarded the Eternity and the computer just goes “Four letter authorization code required.” Who the fuck wrote this stupid-ass program!!!!!!! It's a violation of all security protocols, when your damn PC asks you to enter your 8-digit password!! God in heaven! Then to make matters worse, Romy changes the system admin to herself and goes to sleep! GIRL! Change the damn passcode!!! What are you doinggggg?! I wanna fire the stupid programmer that wrote this damn program. Did you not go through 4 years of rigorous training? Did you not read the social engineering handbook and how your information can be stolen?! Like, the computer asks her if she wants to become the new admin, it could also have asked her if she wanted to CHANGE THE DAMN CODE!They taught you astrophysics but didn't teach you enough Computer Science? First law of social/security engineering, keep a stronger password than ‘Lucy'. Also, why in the world did she only know a little programming as she mentions it? You're in space, where everything is run by a computers. You should know how to fix it. I also can't believe she installed a whole new OS while IN SPACE! HECK! :( I'm so mad at this thing.Let's also discuss how she cold-bloodedly killed J and then instead of dealing with the trauma and seeing through it, the story abruptly ends. And while J is dying, she says to her mom: “I took care of him. He's...dying.” What? My epic fantasy protagonists feel more remorse and pain when they kill their arch-nemesis than you do, girl. This part was not at all well-written.There is also zero chance that NASA sent the kid of the astronauts who died in space, to the same ship they died on, no matter what. I'm certain that violates like a hundred protocols. Did the entire human population die that they could only find this kid? Huuuh? We deviated a bit too much from the rules of our reality. Has common sense left all humans in this story?/EndRantI'm done. This just agitated me. I'm gonna go back to reading [b:The Hidden Oracle 26252859 The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1) Rick Riordan https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1449765273s/26252859.jpg 46249638] now :

Well wow, ow, that was so much. I got frustrated about halfway through trying to figure out what the hell had happened in the past that kept being alluded to. It makes sense that she was avoiding thinking about it for so long, but as a reader, I wanted to know what was going on. Learning who J is was a great moment, though. That reveal was done BRILLIANTLY.