How would you like to take a trip to the moon?

I bought this book by chance, in a rush. Hardly taking time to read the blurb or the first page, or even look at the cover, I expected it to be boring and pointless, something to read just to pass time. It was completely the opposite: compelling and mysterious, at parts making you jump right out of your skin, (not literally)!

The book is set in the year 2018, and is about three teenagers who enter a competition, (not all to their own will), to spend 172 hours on the Moon at moon base Darlah 2, the first time on the moon in nearly fifty years. But why has nobody heard of Darlah before? And why is an old man, Oleg Himmelfarb, so terrified when he sees the drawings of Darlah 2 on the television?

There is a reason that nobody had returned to the moon. There is something up there that will send shivers through your body. But there is one problem: nobody knows. Is there enough time for the three 'lucky' teens to escape? Or will they be stuck, on the moon, forever?

This book is quite scary, so if you don't like scary books, I wouldn't recommend it. However, if you want a good read, which is frightening and scientific, it's the one for you. I would class the genre of the book as science fiction, as most of it is not true, but I read it in a few days, it was so engaging. There's one thing to note though, I usually don't like scary books, but I loved this book. 172 Hours On The Moon is out of this world, (quite literally)!

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