{"id":11935,"date":"2021-04-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11935"},"modified":"2021-04-20T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:22:04","slug":"q-for-a-queer-complicated-love-story-set-in-space-aboard-qriosity-by-shaun-david-hutchinson-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11935","title":{"rendered":"Q for a queer COMPLICATED LOVE STORY SET IN SPACE aboard Qriosity, by Shaun David Hutchinson (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A message he can trust,
new friends in this adventure,
why can’t they remember how they got here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s disorienting to wake up in a spacesuit floating outside a spaceship<\/a> amid flashing warnings of imminent explosion – and to have another 16 year old inside Qirosity trying to shut down the faulty reactor and help Noa get to the airlock at the same time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noa stumbles out of the resuscitator (first death is the hardest), meeting Jenny on his way to find DJ – who abducted them from all over the US?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just the three teens on this spaceship\u2026 and a grown-up kid actor’s hologram<\/a> with unhelpful messages, and a murdered girl, and the kid actor’s entire mystery series to watch, and more than a lifetime supply of Nutreesh bars in the galley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DJ and Noa are falling for each other, Jenny is plotting revenge on the aliens\/kidnappers, and strange events keep them hopping as one day seems to repeat itself, repeat itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steered automatically to a high school on an asteroid, they find cliques and yucky PE class and teachers who stop all the fun and the murdered girl from Qriosity who doesn’t remember being on the spaceship at all\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why is there a high school in space?
Why does Jenny prefer Nutreesh to what Noa cooks?
Is DJ and Noa’s love real?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three teens must rely on each other to survive months in space, a monster or two, crisis after crisis, and a school dance as they keep trying hack into Qriosity’s navigation system and get back to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another tale of strange happenings and learning to love from the author of The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza<\/em> (I recommended here<\/a>) and At the Edge of the Universe<\/em> (more here<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aliens – yes or no?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book Info<\/strong>: A Complicated Love Story Set in Space \/ Shaun David Hutchinson. Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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