Actual rating: 2.5/5 stars

I cannot tell you how much I wanted to like this book more than I did! For the first 10 chapters or so, I loooved it, I was reading it consistently and I was very eager to know what would happen next! After the tenth chapter though, I just couldn't bring myself to finishing it... And it's such a shame, because it's a really short book, I should have finished it in a matter of hours!

Tbh, sci-fi isn't my preferred genre, I don't really enjoy it, but I thought I'd give it a try and see how I felt about it. Let me tell you, I loved Astra, she's was definitely a very spunky and interesting character and I'd love to read more from her POV! Felix was also an interesting character, I loved his exasperation with Astra and I also really admired his dedication to her, because even though he was a soldier for the biggest part of his life, he took Astra under his wing and felt for her more than he would have liked to admit!

I think that my main problem with the book, was the length! I would have loved it to be longer, because then many things that sparked my interest would have been explored more in depth! For example, I really wanted to know more about the current state of the world, it's clear we are in the future and more than one planets are habitable, but I wanted more than that! I had so many questions regarding the plot, and almost none were answered. Maybe the author purposefully didn't want to reveal to much or write this book with too much detail and also maybe I'm way too used to reading books that are over 400 pages that this one felt like it was missing something.