The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

Funny side note to begin this review. I apparently had no clue how to spell “loneliest” before I began typing this title and spell check kept sneaking an extra “e” in there! Now I know! The Loneliest Girl in the Universe was such an entertaining, different, and surprisingly good book! I have heard so much about it lately and when it kept popping up I finally broke down and decided I needed to see what the hype was all about. I didn’t really know what to expect, and I’ll be honest, I was a little hesitant at first. But then I got swept away in the mind of the MC Romy and all of the emotions she was going through being the sole occupant of a spaceship called The Infinity that is heading to another planet, Earth 2. I can’t begin to imagine how I would feel knowing that all communication with anyone on Earth had a two year delay in response, and being millions upon millions of miles away from all other life. My palms start sweating just thinking about it!Being a book about a single character, alone, far away in outer space, there really isn’t a large cast of characters that you meet. There’s Romy the MC, her therapist from NASA named Molly (assigned to her after she sent word that her parents had died in an awful accident), and J who’s on another spaceship sent to help Romy get to Earth 2.  Yep, you read that right, NASA decided that after Romy having spent years completely alone captaining a spaceship all by herself since the age of 11, they are finally sending her help!!! And in the form of a man named J on a spaceship called The Eternity.Romy was actually born on the ship after her parents accidentally got pregnant in the early years of their space travel to Earth 2. So she has never known Earth or anything really besides The Infinity and all its nooks and crannies. She was raised there by her parents until a horrible accident kills them while she's only 11 years old, and she is then forced to run the spaceship all on her own. I found myself really connecting with Romy, the thoughts that ran through her head and the way she handles all the problems or questions she comes across are pretty realistic to how I would feel if ever stuck in the same circumstance. She craves touch, and love, and even just a conversation from anyone other than the halfway conversations in the emails she receives from Molly on a daily basis. The emails from Molly really aren’t conversations at all because as Romy gets further and further away from Earth, the longer it takes for her messages to reach Earth. And at the time we enter her story, it currently takes one year to make it to Earth and then another year for the response to arrive in Romy’s inbox. Two years just to get a response to any question she might have. I would go insane.The format the book is written consists of the emails Romy receives, her fanfic of Loch & Ness (which was some of my favorite to read) and then the rest from Romy’s POV and all the thoughts running through her head. It hit me about halfway through that it was weird to read a book with little to no dialogue. I didn't really notice it until Romy herself mentions at one point that she didn’t know if her voice still even worked, that she hadn’t actually spoken out loud in years. Can you even imagine that? I constantly talk to myself, so I know that wouldn’t be the same in my case, but who actually knows what it would be like to be so alone for so long. Maybe I would just cease to talk out loud, what’s the point when you are literally the only person around to hear it?!This book had one crazy twist of an ending that brought me to almost tears at one point. It goes from being a mellow adventure of a 17 year old girl to something of a thriller. I was biting my nails hoping that she would survive. It was interesting the way that things were revealed over time instead of all at once. And you learn just exactly what happened on the ship that Romy doesn’t want to remember, or speak of. The whirlwind of an end had me consuming this book faster than my brain could keep up.  I read this in less than 24 hours and finished it feeling like I had just gone on a deep space adventure myself! This was a great read, and it will stick with me for a while to come. I’ll be putting this pretty book up on the favorites shelf along with all my other beauties!

This book is a fantastic blend of the movie Passengers with The Search for WondLa series by Tony DiTerlizzi. I could not put it down easily, finishing the whole thing in just a day. The technological world is rich, and despite the major implication in the description, I could still barely see the twists coming. This book is special, and I might have to check out other works by this author. Would definitely recommend this book, no question about it! Incorporated some very relatable coming-of-age thoughts in it as well, which can be hard to do believably sometimes but this book NAILS IT.

This book was soooooo good!!!!! Very intense and very worth the read. I would highly recommend! If you’re anything like me and you get persuaded by the negative reviews, ignore any of those and trust your instinct to read this wonderful book. I finished it in a few days because I couldn’t put it down!

I can totally relate, one of the books I can’t live without!

The loneliest Girl in the Universe is a solid 4 star for me, the narrative pace being the only thing keeping it from being a full fledged 5 star.I felt like all the action parts were comprised in the last 20% of the book and while I get that the author was trying to amp the suspense and build momentum, it still had me dragging my eyes through some of the first and middle pages.And that piece sums up all I didn’t like as much about this book, because the rest that there is is an absolute delight to read.We travel through space and time with Romy and she’s a great companion.While I couldn’t relate to the main character’s mental health issues (anxiety and crippling panic attacks), they were so well portrayed I could feel myself in her shoes.Getting to know her is delightful, even if the pace isn’t always to my liking, and uncovering what happened to make her the loneliest girl in the universe felt white compelling (again, even if the pace kind of got in the way of making this a page turner for me).She’s so well written, I actually found myself annotating her thoughts as if I was replying to her, so, yes, the writing is that good.Not to mention how awesome (but still pretty elementary, thank god) the actual technical parts read, like how traveling at light speed and planetary distance affect messaging from point A to point B and other real life physics sort of things.I don’t want to give too much away about the plot with my review so I’ll just finish by saying that this is a book full of surprises you won’t see coming. I do recommend it!

This book was really good! IT WAS LIKE A SLOW BURN with a big twist at the end. I didn’t even expect it !

Primero, el acabado del libro es muy bueno, la calidad de las cubiertas también, aunque por el tema del espacio me hubiese gustado que los grabados no se limitaran al lomo del libro. En el titulo, el fondo que pretende ser una nebulosa termina aparentando algo mas parecido a un manchon, fue de las pocas cosas que no me agradó.La historia, en casi todo el libro pensé que el tema en el que la protagonista se refería como "lo que le pasó a los astronautas" sería de un carácter completamente diferente a lo que en realidad sucede, juegan con ese limite entre lo paranormal y el suspenso que me agradó porque me tuvo desorientada y queriendo descubrir la verdad.Sentí el cierre del libro muy abrupto y me hubiese gustado ver un poco más allá de ese punto.Plasma muy bien el trauma de la perdida y las limitaciones que nos ponemos para realizar ciertas acciones derivado de eso, aunque llega a ser cliché en algunos puntos, pero en sí no le podría mala calificación a la historia.

El libro llegó en un estado bastante mejorable. Varios rasguños, desgastado, con los bordes ya sin papel y con manchas de dedos.No recomendable por el estado del libro, no parece nuevo en absoluto.

My book was indented severely at the front cover and back. Although I got the hard cover, both the sleeve and hardcover portion where indented.Otherwise, in terms of book content: 10/10!! Love it! And highly recommend!!

The end was to anticlimactic after the strong initial storyline. It left many questions unanswered for me. Readable, however- for the bold ideas...

Came a little damaged, but still ok. The book was good, some good plot twists some things more previsible but overall a good book.