Thank you Ooligan Press for providing me with this ARC on Edelweiss.

2.75☆

I truly believe this book had a lot of potential, but unfortunately it didnt live up to that. The writing was not great in a way where it tried to be sophisticated but it was actually simple and told everything that was happening very directly. The characters were interesting I guess but they did not seem like really people. You wouldn't meet anyone like them in real life except for maybe the child, Iris. I love LGBTQ+ representation, but it didnt feel authentic when the main character mentioned being intersex ever 2 paragraphs in this book. I was invested in the plot, but it felt cheesy and unrealistic in a social/character way, even for a sci-fi/dystopian.