“….Those are what we need to be free together. I’m not sure what it means to be free as a single person — I don’t know if that’s a meaningful concept. We make our decisions together, like you do, even if we don’t use the same methods.”

First contact and climate fiction where the environment was saved before total collapse. 
I found the concepts in this book interesting, but the execution left something to be desired.
I loved how Jewish values and traditions tied into the plot throughout the novel. The different use of pronouns by different human and alien groups was also interesting, though I could have used less of an emphasis on “motherhood.” 
The Interludes sprinkled throughout were fascinating, and I wish there had been many more. 

While the philosophy of Judy and the Watershed Networks was interesting, and the execution of communal living was done beautifully, I didn’t need to hear every word of every decision. If you like sci-fi novels that are mostly dialogue, this probably won’t bother you, but I saw so much potential for a fast-moving and engaging plot, and instead it felt like non-stop dialogue that sometimes changed location. 
The malware/network attack especially was so boring. Each conversation about it went in circles, and it was obvious from the beginning who did it and why. Maybe if there had been multiple POV this could have held some tension, but instead it was repetitive and dull. 
Even when a baby was kidnapped, what could have been a high-stakes scene full of emotion devolved into another rational conversation circle that lasted far longer than necessary.  

By the end, I found myself distracted and didn’t care about how the story wrapped up as I didn’t believe Judy and wouldn’t get what she was negotiating for. 

For other audiobook readers, I loved the Narrator except for a few sentences each section where the dialogue is described with a certain emotion but read in another. For example, a character says something sounding described as having “relished the idea,” but the tone the narrator read it in was very resigned. 

Finally, if inter-species romance is your thing, no judgment, but that was an ick in this book for me.