2.5/5

Hmm... essentially a condensed and less well written version of the Lunar Chronicles.

I liked the concept and plot but the author started the story in the middle of it but didn't proceed to explain anything. The author is clearly a fan of info dumping but none of the information dumped gave me any clarification to everything going on. That didn't make the story come off as mysterious to me as much as the author didn't know how to write what she wanted to write.

There's a ton of useless info dumping...about random things that never became important. I'm not a fan of info dumping but at least do it to leave traces or hints for what's to come. because that wasn't done, a lot of the twists and turns came randomly out of nowhere and made me think "well that doesn't even remotely make sense with the character's history" or "well isn't that awfully convenient."

There really isn't any character or world development. This definitely played a roll in me not being super interested in the end. I still have zero sense of who any character is other than their lineage.

Honestly, I don't know that I would've finished it without the audiobook that helped me push through. This book came off as a debut author's work yet Weber has several publications in this genre so I definitely expected more.