This book was so delightfully weird. It gave me Wall-E vibes from all the ad placements mixed with Lost in Space with all of its random misadventures plus general teen drama.

Noa goes to sleep on Earth and then wakes up to find himself wearing a spacesuit and floating outside of Qriosity, a space ship that is on the countdown to explode, without any idea of how he got there. He is joined by DJ and Jenny, two other teens with no memory of how they got on board a space ship, and an AI named Jenny Perez, "the precocious kid detective and best-selling author Anastasia Darling on the award winning mystery entertainment program Murder Your Darlings ". The teens must work together to save the ship, unravel how they got there, and find a way home while Noa and DJ grapple with their growing feelings for each other.

This is one of those books where I felt I should have figured out some of the plot twists, and maybe I had an inkling at times, but it really does a solid job of keeping you guessing. Noa, DJ, and Jenny were great characters who all had believable reactions to randomly waking up in space and their relationship development was solid. I appreciated that Shaun David Hutchinson included trigger warnings at the beginning of the book because there were some triggering events in Noa's past that come up.

The ending felt a bit rushed and would have made more sense in a series book than a stand-alone, but it was satisfying after the twists and turns throughout the rest of the story.

Overall, A Complicated Love Story Set in Space was a solid space adventure with understandable levels of angst considering the circumstances. The parts I felt a bit iffy about at first made total sense as the plot unfolded even if it pushed at my suspension of disbelief.