I'm starting to realize I have a problem with diving head-first into stories. The first time I did so was with The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Catherine Webb. I bought it on a whim, and ended up staying up all night reading it - all 405 pages, despite having work the next morning.

While it wasn't over-night, I just did it again with The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer. I couldn't keep my eyes off my screen, and even while I had to take a short break I couldn't stop theorizing about what was going to happen.

I won't make this a spoiler post, but the book opens as a teenager, Ambrose Cust, awakens on a damaged ship to the sound of the ship's AI - which uses his mega-corporation CEO mother's voice, no less. He's tasked with fixing the ship's issues before its arrival at Saturn's moon Titan, where he - and another teenager from the only other country on Earth, Kodiak Celius - will render assistance to Ambrose's sister Minerva, who had previously set out to begin a colony. But that is only the beginning, and though some might think it drags, it gets. SO. Good.

While it does use the enemies-to-lovers trope, in a gay capacity, it was well-executed. There's no explicit sex, but it's clear it happens. It's also marked as YA fiction, but... I'd argue that's only because the characters are 17.

After binge-reading it, I'm just kind of mentally fried. I enjoyed it so much that I was reeling from the conclusion. I really hope I can bring attention to this book and have some discussions about it.