{"id":40584,"date":"2024-06-06T22:40:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T02:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40584"},"modified":"2024-06-06T22:40:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T02:40:33","slug":"review-of-a-complicated-love-story-set-in-space-by-shaun-david-hutchinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=40584","title":{"rendered":"Review of A Complicated Love Story Set in Space, by Shaun David Hutchinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A Complicated Love Story Set in Space<\/em><\/p>\n

by Shaun David Hutchinson
\nnarrated by Kevin R. Free with Gibson Frazier and Candace Thaxton<\/p>\n

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021. 11 hours, 2 minutes.
\nReview written December 24, 2021, from a library eaudio<\/p>\n

Well, the title of this book tells the truth. This is a very complicated love story, and it\u2019s set in space.<\/p>\n

In fact, the book begins when 16-year-old Noa North wakes up in a spacesuit outside a ship. He remembers going to sleep in his own bed and has no idea how he got in space. He\u2019s not feeling good about it. And when he gets to the airlock ready to go into the safety of the ship, a voice tells him that the ship is about to explode and he needs to patch a hole on the outside of the ship. Which is not an easy thing to do.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s just the beginning of their adventures in space. There are only two other people on the ship \u2013 DJ, the owner of the voice that helped him fix the ship, and Jenny, whom they later find locked in a restroom. They are all sixteen years old. But are they the only people on board?<\/p>\n

The things that happen to them after that, ranging from finding another person on the ship, fighting an alien monster, and getting stuck in a time loop, all seem oddly episodic. On top of that, their efforts to get back to earth are consistently thwarted. But things really get interesting as they begin to discover why they\u2019re on the ship in the first place and who put them there.<\/p>\n

But meanwhile, Noa\u2019s wrestling with a bad experience in his past that makes him afraid to give in to his feelings for DJ. Can they find love in such a complicated setting?<\/p>\n

The story, once we know what happened, all seems wild and farfetched, but let\u2019s be honest, it\u2019s still a whole lot of fun. Noa is endearing, and you\u2019ve got to feel for a guy who wakes up in outer space. Don\u2019t read this one for believability, but do read it for a fun romance between two guys caught up in extraordinary circumstances.<\/p>\n

Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Disclaimer: I am a professional librarian, but the views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n

What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n

*Note* To try to catch up on posting reviews, I\u2019m posting the oldest reviews I\u2019ve written on my blog without making a page on my main website. They\u2019re still good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Complicated Love Story Set in Space by Shaun David Hutchinson narrated by Kevin R. Free with Gibson Frazier and Candace Thaxton Simon & Schuster Audio, 2021. 11 hours, 2 minutes. Review written December 24, 2021, from a library eaudio Well, the title of this book tells the truth. This is a very complicated love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-romance","category-science-fiction","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43886,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40584\/revisions\/43886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}