no one is more disappointed than me.

the representation was lovely—aroace main character, sapphic romance, non-white characters abound, plus an important discussion about disability.

unfortunately, it wasn’t enough.

the worldbuilding is weak and doesn’t make much sense. it‘s a character-driven book, and the characters just weren’t strong enough to carry the plot—which is rather non-existent for the first 60%, and followed by a rushed ending. the villains’ motives are still unclear to me. there’s a big war on technology that isn’t developed enough to be believable. all characters change theirs minds out of nowhere at least once in the story. i actually relistened to a couple of chapters to check if i hadn’t missed anything, so sudden a character had a change of heart.

i was expecting much, much more.