172 Hours on the Moon
Apr 29, 2012
Author: Johan Harstad
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (April 17, 2012)
Originally published in 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316182885
ISBN-13: 978-0316182881
Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (April 17, 2012)
Originally published in 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316182885
ISBN-13: 978-0316182881
Book Description:
It's been decades since anyone set foot on the moon. Now three ordinary teenagers, the winners of NASA's unprecedented, worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space--and change their lives forever.
It's the opportunity of a lifetime, but little do the teenagers know that something sinister is waiting for them on the desolate surface of the moon. And in the black vacuum of space... no one is coming to save them.
Idgie Says:
This story tends to be a somewhat disjointed rambling story that loses it’s focus several times along the way. There are plot holes that you could break a leg in. It was originally translated from Norwegian and perhaps that could be a part of it, but I don't think so.
But oddly, though I made the above statement, it's a Young Adult sci-fi story that will keep a kid interested. The teen's angst is relateable and all teens have dreams of getting away from their life and doing something wild that will bring them notice
Three teenagers are picked from a worldwide raffle to go to the moon as a way to garner interest in NASA and space travel again. The mission is to get funding for the moon program again, but no one knows the real reason the moon program was actually shut down 60 years before.
Something was found on the moon and it wasn’t friendly.
The teens are sent up as a decoy for the real reason to set foot up there. But what they find when they get there is an abstract terror where things happen, or don't happen and then the story conveniently backtracks on itself with the nothing becoming an implausable something explaining how some other implausable something actually occurs at the end. (Trying hard not to give anything away here.)
I shut the book with a big "hmph" and a quizzical look, but at the same time I realized that I did hang in for the full story and wanted to know how it ended.
Take that as you will. Then again, Sci-fi doesn't have to make sense all the time... sometimes you just go with it and enjoy. :)
The teens are sent up as a decoy for the real reason to set foot up there. But what they find when they get there is an abstract terror where things happen, or don't happen and then the story conveniently backtracks on itself with the nothing becoming an implausable something explaining how some other implausable something actually occurs at the end. (Trying hard not to give anything away here.)
I shut the book with a big "hmph" and a quizzical look, but at the same time I realized that I did hang in for the full story and wanted to know how it ended.
Take that as you will. Then again, Sci-fi doesn't have to make sense all the time... sometimes you just go with it and enjoy. :)
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Reviewed by Idgie. If you would like to have the Dew review a book, please contact me at dewonthekudzu@gmail.com
