The Darkness Outside Us

By Eliot Schrefer

Book Overview

They Both Die at the End meets Gravity in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer. Stonewall Honor Award winner

Two boys, alone in space. Sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission.

Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor with no memory of a launch. There's more that doesn't add up: evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship's operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed--not when he's rescuing his own sister.

In order to survive the ship's secrets, Ambrose and Kodiak will need to work together and learn to trust each other . . . especially once they discover what they are truly up against. Love might be the only way to survive.

* Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books of the Year * A Booklist Editor's Choice of the Year * A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book of the Year * A YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults & Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults Book of the Year *

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062888234
• ISBN13: 9780062888235
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

It wasn't what I expected and I love that

This book looks and acts like it's going to be another enemies to lovers book. But it's so much more. I'd love to talk about the excitement and intensity I felt reading this, but I don't want to give anything away. I LOVE this book. It's new to me in the best way, and I wish there were more books like it.