#The Brightness Between Us

[thisantithesis]

just got severely emotional over the cover reveal for the brightness between us

[metalandmagi]

Going the entirety of The Darkness Outside Us without knowing that Kodiak wore a skirt back on Earth is like going all of the Captive Prince trilogy without knowing Damen has a dimple.

[machtaholic]

Okay, I am reading 'The Brightness Between Us' (sequel to 'The Darkness Outside Us') and ...I just finished Part 4 and ...

FUCK DEVON MUJABA!

[sunnyupsidedown]

There’s going to be a sequel to The Darkness Outside Us!!

[krissielee]

Please is anyone I know reading The Brightness Between Us because I am having too many feels and not a single person I know IRL is reading it right now and I don't know how to process please come scream at me I need someone to understand my wounded animal squeaks of soul-deep emotion.

[taste-thewaste]

Happy pub day, beautiful!!

[edsearring]

i'm seated. the bookstore employees are scared and asking me to leave because it's "not october yet" but i'm simply too seated

[hanging-with-the-gnomies]

me and the bad bitch i pulled by being annoying

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Brightness Between Us

twisty YA sci-fi, sequel to The Darkness Outside Us

17 years later, Ambrose and Kodiak are raising their two surviving children on an isolated planet

their rebellious daughter wants to explore further, but after making a small discovery she learns there’s more about their circumstances than she knew, while her reserved older brother is going through some strange experiences of his own

with a dual narrative of Ambrose and Kodiak on earth before they leaving to space, finding out the truth about the titan mission, and learning more about the resistance in a dying world on the brink of war

[jeanmoreaux]

rotating "Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power." so fast in my head i suffer from vertigo

[mollymauk-teafleak]

Thinking about Kodiak and Ambrose and their early years on Minerva.

Thinking about the first time it rains and they run outside, the two of them getting soaked to the skin but laughing so delightedly and dancing together in the sudden downpour, their footprints glowing.

Thinking about Kodiak being unable to put baby Yarrow down in his crib once he has him in his arms because he has these vague memories of being in the orphanage and never getting held, he's desperate to give his tiny son all the love and affection he can so he never knows that kind of loneliness. Ambrose has to gently coax him, promising that Yarrow won't mind if he sets him down to sleep, that they'll be right next to him in their own bed if he needs them.

Thinking about the first time a storm hits and little Yarrow knocking on the dad's door, his little sister clinging to his other hand because she's scared of the noise but won't admit it. So Yarrow says he's very frightened of the storm, can he and Owl come sleep with you guys? And Kodiak and Ambrose just smile, making as much room as they can for their little ones to snuggle up between them, holding them so safe.

Thinking about how Ambrose has never seen Kodiak cry until they lose one of their babies and then he sobs like he's never going to stop and all he can do is just hold into him and pray his arms are enough to stop him falling apart completely.

Thinking about Kodiak and Ambrose calling each other husband because sure, that doesn't mean much out here and there's no legal meaning to it anymore but they made promises to each other one quiet night and that means everything to them.

Thinking about one time Kodiak checks his list of tasks for the day and is confused to see it wiped off its usual chores to keep the homestead running. Instead there's just one job on it and reading it makes him blush. He turns and Ambrose is leaning in the doorway to their room with a huge flirty grin on his face, pointing out that their children are out playing for the next few hours and they have their first alone time in who knows how long so he took the liberty of adjusting your schedule appropriately. Kodiak just shakes his head fondly and lifts Ambrose right off his feet, carrying him to their bed while he laughs.

[metalandmagi]

"I hate it here so I will go to lunar vallies in my mind, when they found a better planet, only gentle survived, I dreamed about it in the dark, the night I felt like I might die"

Ambrose and Kodiak from The Darkness Outside Us. The sequel is my book of the year so far, and it makes me so sad that more people haven't read this duology. I like to think that this is one of their previous iterations, staring out the "window," blissfully unaware of their reality. Just ignore the fact that I don't know how to draw planets 😅

[thighzp]

Headed to NYC this weekend and bringing along Ambrose, Kodiak, Yarrow, & Owl ✈️

[jjsanguine]

Finished reading this and I have got to stop reading this sort of thing before bed. Me and psychological horror are like lactose intolerant people and ice-cream.

Not like the 1st book wasn't psychological horror in a YA romance suit but this one dispensed with the suit, there's barely any romance and the way the one that's actually there goes? Listen. Let's just be happy our original (lol) start crossed (lmao) lovers will never know about that

[hushed-chorus]

This is the good shit. Best way to spend a Friday night

[sleepyrxsetea]

I just found out that one of my favorite books, The Darkness Outside Us, has a sequel coming out in FOUR DAYS and I’m going feral.

I’ve thought about the first book constantly for a year now. It has had such a long lasting impression on me. It made me laugh, it made me ball my eyes out, it made me stare at the wall in shock more times then I can count. I recommend it to everyone I know that likes queer space books and none of them have took the recommendation but it’s fine in the end because I’ve read it and I get to enjoy the sequel now. They’re all missing out ^^

Take this as a book recommendation. If you like queer space books that are heartbreaking and really good, might I recommend The Darkness Outside Us

Somewhere Beyond The Sea, Celestial Monsters, and now The Brightness Between Us?!?! I’m eating well this fall season