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4.0
I really enjoyed this. It's a lively sci-fi adventure with a romantic subplot, the first in a new series, and it's super entertaining. This book is exciting and fun and poignant and just a cracking good read. It's very cool to read a sci-fi adventure where both main characters are people of colour and one of them is bisexual. It's not often a genius queer Black man and a staunch badass woman of colour get to save the world together in books and I absolutely loved that. It's Alex Beecroft, so the writing is top notch, the world-building is superb, and the plot is gripping and full of action. Both main characters are wonderfully multidimensional and full of depth. They're genuinely interesting, complicated people whose struggles and character growth are fascinating to read. The large cast of secondary characters is well-developed and very diverse, featuring lots of queer folk and lots of different skin colours and backgrounds. This is very much an exciting "outcasts saving the world" story and the fledgling romance is definitely secondary, but it's a nice romance of opposites that makes both participants think a whole lot about who they really are and what really matters. It took me a few chapters to really connect with the story and the characters, but once it got going, I was truly sucked in and enjoyed every minute. I am really looking forward to reading more about this world and all these interesting characters in the next instalment.
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