3.75/5 Cyberpunk capitalist future with a baby AI and mellow queer characters doing a heist and rebel against the system? YES please.

I enjoyed this book a lot! The city feels very like walking through the cities in Altered Carbon (Netflix series) and you feel the weight and depression of the corporation ruling everything. The VR aspect reminded me of Ready Player One but was not played out extensively so it's just a nice nod to it.

I love the characters.
the non-binary revolutionary punk sibling.
The gryffindor queer protagonist with a philosopher hot professor boyfriend (my favourite kind of OTP okay?)
The super young funny hacker
The master-assassin queer badass woman with zero f***s to give.

The story is a heist and the aftermaths of it. What if you do give the very important piece of tech to the corporation or the chaotic cult leader? What are AI rights? Where does a person begin?

The concept is amazing, but I feel like the execution was lacking some punch behind it. The stakes in this feel underrated most of the book. The plot has for some reason two climaxes and I felt pretty annoyed by it. It took away some tension from the final showdown, which was unfortunate..
As always I have some issues with the AI in this. His character kinda still stays shallow. I GET that he is super young and still developing an identity and I LOOVE how the philosophical discussions shape him. I just don't feel a lot of emotions from Mirae and that's a bit of an issue for me.

Overall I think this book is a good sci-fi heist, but not great.