Weekend Pick for May 10, 2024
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Welcome to Week 2 of June Picks! Our contributor, Erinn Bentley, is a professor of English education at Columbus State University in Georgia. In addition to mentoring pre-service teachers and graduate students, she enjoys leading study abroad programs around the world.
 Erinn Bentley | Based on this novel’s cover art, jacket description, and readers’ reviews, I fully expected The Darkness Outside Us to be a suspenseful, angsty sci-fi teen love drama set in outer space. I was correct about the outer space part. I was wrong about everything else. And, I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. Set in a future where Earth is on the brink of destruction, two adolescent spacefarers from enemy nations are sent on a mission to rescue a family member, who is marooned on Saturn’s moon. |
This is where readers meet Ambrose and Kodiak as the spacefarers warily work together to complete their mission. The novel begins with a straightforward plot – The spacefaring teens must save the human race while fending off the dangers deep space. As the novel progresses, the pair uncover layers of secrets from their past that drastically affect their present and future lives. So as not to give away any plot twists, I will simply say this novel is full of surprises, in the best possible way.
I absolutely could not put this novel down, at first because I was intrigued with the slowly unfolding mystery surrounding both characters. What really held my attention, though, was how much I came to care about Ambrose and Kodiak. I’m not sure how to explain this novel. It’s more than a love story between two people. It is more like love letter about what it means to be human.
I absolutely could not put this novel down, at first because I was intrigued with the slowly unfolding mystery surrounding both characters. What really held my attention, though, was how much I came to care about Ambrose and Kodiak. I’m not sure how to explain this novel. It’s more than a love story between two people. It is more like love letter about what it means to be human.
 |  Eliot Schrefer |
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