SOLVED. YA Sci-fi. Humans arrive in spaceship to help set up human colony on another planet. Aliens are hunter-gatherers with grey skin, they blush black. Alien female falls in love with human male. Read 2015-2018. [s]

[Kate]

I read this book at some point between 2015 and 2018. The plot involved at least 2-3 humans arriving on a spaceship to help set up a human colony. One of them is a young adult male. I think they were not expecting an alien species on this planet but I am not confident. The aliens are bipedal (walk on two legs), and have grey skin because their blood is black and they blush black. The other main character is a young alien girl who falls in love with the male protagonist. The book alternates between their perspectives.

The aliens live in something like a hunter-gatherer society. But there are some secret ruins of a very advanced city that they travel to pointing to a tragedy of some kind on the planet. There are tensions between the humans and the aliens. One of the other people the male protagonist arrives with is very antagonistic toward the aliens.

[Rainbowheart]

Was this book for teens or adults?

[Kris]

Kate, I copied some book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

[Kate]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Was this book for teens or adults?"

Kate wrote: "I read this book at some point between 2015 and 2018. The plot involved at least 2-3 humans arriving on a spaceship to help set up a human colony. One of them is a young adult male. I think they we..."

Teens

[Rainbowheart]

Does anything on the Teenagers . . . IN SPACE! list look familiar?

[Kate]

Rainbowheart wrote: "Does anything on the Teenagers . . . IN SPACE! list look familiar?"

I found it on the list!! (Plus a few other interesting titles)
It was the Exo Project by Andrew DeYoung. Thank you so much!

[Kris]

Great! Glad you found your book, Kate. Thanks for the update. Here's the link - The Exo Project by Andrew DeYoung.

[Rainbowheart]

Awesome, super glad you found it!