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By birgerjohansson (not verified) on 01 Jan 2016 #permalink
The worst story of 2015 is a book I started reading the last day of the year.
I strongly unrecommend the Norwegian young adult/teeenager book “Darlah – 172 timer på månen” (now being translated to umpteen languages), nominally science fiction but really a horror story in the worst tradition of “nevermind logic, just scare the readers”,
First of all- everybody dies. This is not a spoiler, because a bit into the narrative on the moon it is obvious this is going to happen.
Also, the story is highly derivative, without adding anything beyond the youth of the protagonists.