Romeo and Juliet, plus fated mates, plus they’re both augmented human assassins in space?

The premise was excellent. And the writing was great too.

It just had two themes that—at this super super specific moment—I wasn’t feeling.
First, I’ve read too much Žižek in the past week to love a story about corporate fat-cats being nepotistic oligarchs (which both MCs were). And then second, the baddies were an army of human—but inhuman—psycho assassins, when all I’ve been thinking about is Hannah Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil” (aka bad guys are just regular people).

Sometimes, the philosophy nonfiction I’m reading poisons my brain and stops me from enjoying otherwise enjoyable books. That’s very much a me-thing and probably won’t effect anyone else 😅

What I did love, though, was that this audiobook was on KU. I didn’t even know that was a thing!