She gave each character the appropriate accent for each character’s country (a Norwegian, a Japanese student, a French student, and several Americans) as they would sound speaking English. At first, I was a little distracted by the woman who read the audiobook. So, the teens spend months training and accompany five astronauts to the moon, where they are to locate and live on a secret NASA moon station called Darlah 2, which was erected kind of like the International Space Station-in sections and over time, although no one actually (supposedly) spent any time in it.Īs it turns out, there was a Darlah 1, but it was abandoned along with all other missions to the moon after some strange occurances, which none of the teenagers and most of the other astronauts knew nothing about. Interesting idea, even if a bit far-fetched at times. I wasn’t even sure it was YA until I really got into it, but it follows the premise that NASA wants to send people back to the moon for a special mission-including three teenagers chosen from a worldwide lottery. Honestly, I hadn’t heard of it.ġ72 HOURS looks like sci-fi, but it is actually a horror novel with a sci-fi background. 172 HOURS ON THE MOON, by Norwegian author Johan Harstad, was originally released in Norway back in 2008, but was released in the US by Little, Brown in 2012 with a big web campaign to try to gain a whole new following. I heard about this book from my sister who has been devouring audiobooks on her commute each day.
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