1.75 stars. 
 I honestly didnaEUR(tm)t expect much from this book and yet somehow it still managed to disappoint me because apparently whenever em and I start a buddy read, the universe decides itaEUR(tm)s time to fuck us over. I didnaEUR(tm)t outright hate it, but I spent almost the entire time I was reading this bored out of my mind. I just have such apathy towards this book that I donaEUR(tm)t even want to write a review, but just because my bitter ass canaEUR(tm)t resist the chance to be salty IaEUR(tm)ll leave you with a mini rant. 
 Nyxia is a YA sci-fi novel that follows the journey of Emmett Atwater and nine other teens as they travel through space on their way to an alien planet. Sounds cool, right? *monotone laughter* ThataEUR(tm)s what I thought, too. The story begins with a bunch of rich businesspeople telling a bunch of poor, desperate kids that theyaEUR(tm)re special snowflakes who are getting sent on a super-important mission to the recently-discovered planet of Eden. Said children are then entered into a cutthroat competition, which consists of various mind-numbingly dull tasks that stretch on and on and on, interspersed with occasional attempts at character development and weird love triangles. I cared about nothing and would genuinely rather solve calculus equations than read this again. 
 Some of the main things I didnaEUR(tm)t like/couldnaEUR(tm)t be bothered to care about: 
 - repetitive training descriptions that had me feeling like I was in a cardboard cutout version of the Dauntless initiation training from Divergent 
 - everyone losing their shit over this random material called nyxia (aka the Mary-Sue of fictional sci-fi substances) that is essentially the evil stone from Black London in ADSOM