This was really ambitious. I enjoyed the world building a lot, and the way that everyone is constantly just a little selfish, a little flawed, a little awful. The characters felt more real that way. I loved Maya and her random flashes of the future, but I also really loved that despite her deep loyalty to Auncle, she could still recognize & process that the Frenro may have been wrong, that Auncle may have lied to her, and that morality is not black and white. I was hoping for a bit of romance between Wil & Maya but by the end I understood why that didn’t make a ton of sense. 

Having said that, I do think this really struggles with pacing, particularly in the middle. Some parts dragged and others were swallowed by a time jump, which lessened the emotional impact & relationship building. 

It is fantasy with no romance, and just a smidge of horror in the last 15% or so. For readers of Station Eternity by Mur Lafferty & The Blighted Stars by Megan O’Keefe.