After all the hype I had seen around this book, I was very excited to finally have my hold come up on it. Ultimately, I ended up being disappointed, and it’s hard to pin down exactly what the problem was. I enjoyed the writing style of the author and felt like the descriptions were well-done. I’m not usually one to pick sci-fi as a first choice, but I found the elements of the story around that to be fine. There were some aspects that were a bit confusing, but I was fine with just rolling with it. I appreciated the themes within the book and how it tried to deal with some universal truths, in the way that I appreciate from a lot of sci-fi literature. 

I think what it may have come down to was a lack of. In the other sci-fi works I have come across, and in other heist stories I have read, when they are well done, it is very much due to clear characterization. I think that many of those stories that I have enjoyed more also jump from different characters perspectives across the different chapters to allow you to see more from each character. In this book, with it being limited to Maya’s perspective, I felt like I did not get a sense for any of the other characters very clearly, and really didn’t even connect to Maya herself. All in all, I feel like there is a great deal of potential here, but needed to have more character building in order to create the sense of a rag-tag group of very different personalities coming together.