The Darkness Outside Us was the most breathtaking sci-fi I’ve read all year. I was really affected by this book and I've been telling people to read it, but I'm absolutely mystified by the marketing and the choices made around it. I wish Tor.com or literally anyone in the funky-yet-mainstream speculative fiction space had picked this up, because that would have been a better home for it. We're past the historical moment (aka until like 2015) when all genre fiction had to be YA or face immediate oblivion. I could see this book getting traction among adult sci-fi audiences and I hope it finds those folks, but it has no relationship to YA except for the fact that the protagonists are, for no real reason, 17.
This is a twisty survival drama, a harrowing story about life and death and the meaning of humanity, and it is to its detriment that it was sold as YA. I'm not going to talk too much about the plot because it's worth reading with as little upfront info as possible, but believe me when I say the romance is basically the least important aspect of this book.
Based on the cover and the description, I assumed this was going to be some kind of YA finnpoe/stucky ripoff space romance.
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