Going to keep this short...

Overall, this was entertaining enough to read, but it wasn't amazing and mind-blowing like Illuminae was. So much of the plot was predictable and repetitive. I am not a fan of the romances in this series. Like everyone is falling in love, and it's happening over a span of a couple days, and there's a war going on and people are dying, but somehow there's time for love. It just got annoying, by the third book. A lot of the plot elements are repeated. We're given the whole "oh no a main character is dead", but then they don't turn up dead. Almost reminded me of the end of ACOWAR, where no one dies.

The format though was unique and I did really enjoy it. I need more books written this way, cause they're so much quicker to read lol but still entertaining.

ALSO...

Was reading the acknowledgements and apparently there were 4 people who served as hijabi experts...except guess what? There's only one line that has the word hijab in it and it only refers to Hannah's mother who apparently wore one. Kind of disappointed. They had the chance to make Hannah a hijab-wearing Muslim, but didn't. Would have liked the representation, despite the difficulties that come with being a Muslim in space.