The Loneliest Girl in the Universe is a sci-fi thriller written by Lauren James about a girl named Romy Silvers. Romy is the last surviving member on the spaceship that is headed towards a new planet that has the possibility of being inhabitable. She's all alone in space, many light years away from Earth, and the only communication that she has with human life is with Molly, a girl who lives on Earth. This communication takes place between emails, with each email that is sent having a two year delay. Romy feels miserable most of the time, until one day when another ship sends her a message from J, a captain of another ship, saying that he was sent to give new supplies and help speed up the process of getting to the new Earth. Romy starts to fall for J as his ship gets closer to hers and their emails become less delayed. She starts to get strange messages from Earth, and things only build from there, as the line between what's real and what's fake start to blur.
I found this book to be engaging throughout and I thought that Lauren James captured the essence of what it's like to be truly alone, which is something I think a lot of people can relate to. There were many twists and turns that I was not expecting which I thought were well put together and planned out. While this book is fairly short, the book was a good length for the story it was telling and made it so it didn't drag on too long. Just long enough to get the point across.
This book is really made for anyone, specifically perhaps teenagers who might be feeling alone and lost. The Loneliest Girl in the Universe is quite different in terms of the genre I normally read, but I found it to be quite a pleasant change nevertheless.
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