This was tough to get through and I thought about putting it down several times. While there are some great concepts, the execution is poor and I do not recommend.

I love an unreliable narrator as much as anyone, but there are several here and few are likeable. Marcus, the first protagonist we meet is a decent enough guy who lucked into a relationship that brought the best out in him. As a young woman, Frida is fun, she knows her own mind, she stands up for herself. I would have love to see more of her, but there was this time jump.

There are a few time jumps! There is also a serious overuse of exclamation points where a period would do just fine.

The time jumps do not help when the pacing is uneven. For a few pages, there was enough grab my curiosity, but then the author seems to be caught up in his own cleverness and goes down unnecessary rabbit holes. Lather, rinse, repeat. Reading the book is a bit of a tug-of-war. It's not as egregious in the beginning where it's either Marcus writing about life and going back and forth with Mirra, but when we get to the future it deteriorates.

Getting into the later sections of the book, we have a new protagonist. At first I thought that Gina was Frida's spiritual heir, but looking back after pages and pages of personality decompensation, while she has Frida's independence, she has little, if any, empathy, which makes it easy to lose patience with her. The brief glimpses of her crewmates aren't enough to get a real feel for anyone's personality except for the overbearingness of Malcolm.

The future technology described is just too good to be true and the descriptions of body modifications a bit too intimate.

Maybe this would have been a better book if it had been send back for revisions at least two more times. I wanted to like it, but overall, I did not.