So Cargo is the first in a series, and it's definitely written that way. A lot of books start off as stand alones and then because they are popular, they end up as a series, but this is written as just the beginning. I almost feel like it's a pre-quel because there are just so many unanswered questions and a lot of open plot holes (for example, there is a lot of talk of aliens/ETs/are they human? But that's never explained in any detail and we never meet anyone who isn't human as far as we know. So that drove me crazy because why mention them at all?)

Cassidy, our main character, I did not like at all. I read a lot of dystopian books so I'm used to the same dystopian tropes, and this one had most of them, but at least the main character usually grows on me if I don't like her at first. I never really liked Cassidy at all. Even though she's living in a tough world, because she's so sheltered, she's extremely spoiled (in my opinion) which makes her really immature. She whines throughout a third of the book how she misses the nuns and the world she's living behind. I'm sure any of us in that situation (being dragged/stolen from everything we know) would whine constantly about our family and homes left behind, too, but in a short novella, the constant "I miss my friends" got really old.

The book does move at a good pace, and there are certainly things that happened that make me wonder what else is going to happen. I didn't really like where the book ended, and because it's a novella, it really left me wanting more. I've been reading a lot of "chunksters" lately so this just felt like a short story in comparison - refreshing, really, the shorter pace, but still felt really short.

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received copy from author in exchange for my review