Cutesy mix of sci-fi and historical romance. Incredibly sanitized but it is YA so that was to be expected. 

 

Overall, it did not impress me. The narration is so weird, that was pretty much the only thing I could focus on. A chapter would be focused on a particular character but the narration would shift from one character to another without any signifier. The pacing of the entire book was bad. The beginning dragged on a dozen chapters then it needed to be and the ending felt so incredibly rushed that I'm not even convinced that there actually was a happy ending. The ending consisted of a single conversation that was apparently meant to convince me that Helena, August, and Margaret were going to have a successful secret polyamorous relationship, of which I am very much not convinced (are August and Maragaret even friends??).

Furthermore, the lack of critical thought put into the worldbuilding was genuinely horrifying. "What if the British Empire was a good thing?" and "What if God was a computer program that was super into eugenics?" were not questions that anyone wanted answered.