Though not exactly revolutionary, there's a good premise here, just sorely needing a better execution. The first half of the book is mostly info-dump, but the lore and the universe still feels lacking in depth. The characters' voices are hard to distinguish, making it difficult to follow along with the shifting narrations; more often than not, I'd forgotten whose perspective I was reading from, and had to backtrack to figure it out. Too often there were large chunks of dialogue exchange but without any speech indicators, so I felt a little lost, unable to determine who was talking. Some of the twists were predictable, but the ending felt entirely too rushed, and the entire time it was difficult to empathize and root for any of the characters since they felt very hollow.

As a base concept, it isn't bad; as a novel in its current form, it's just not very good. I feel like this could work well on-screen (in a series, where there's more room to develop the characters and build a universe), but in order to work as a book, it needs a lot of work.

This wasn't great - weak characters and dialogue with an uninspired and dull plot line. The action scenes were fairly engaging but I've seen far better elsewhere.

Disappointing from the start. The prologue begins with “telling” me what so and so had done and is the “bad guy”. Not well written, all the characters are flat. I felt no sorrow at any of the characters death. A boring read that made time so slower during this quarantine.
Thank you Netgalley for this ARC

I feel like this book was written for a movie. Like, hoping it would get a movie deal because it has little depth but enough action for a movie.

Didn’t feel anything for the characters; the plot didn’t draw me in. The writing is flat. Could not force myself to finish it.

Perhaps it can be made into a movie for SiFi channel.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with a free copy of this title.