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I had high hopes as I LOVE a good space opera and I've never read a serialized work like this before.

The diverse cast of characters and morally ambiguous questions that were posed were interesting to me but the plot and pacing were all over the place. The book really dragged on and I found myself skipping much of the last couple chapters because I just wanted to be done with the whole thing. It also felt really disjointed in terms of the writing, with some chapters including plot holes or requiring further editing (poor grammar and awkward sentence structure).

I wanted to enjoy this more than I did and I don't think I'll be continuing to read the rest of the series :(

This was fine. I found the protagonist irritating and had trouble telling many of the other characters apart. 

I think part of what I loved about Weir’s other books was that the main character was busy problem-solving things in interesting ways and this was mostly an emotionally immature non-astronaut having feelings. Weir clearly struggled to write a woman of color character and it comes off as awkward and cringey (though not nearly as bad as some other male authors 🙄) like, what was with the <spoiler>reusable condom</spoiler> subplot? 

Skip this one.

I'll admit this was probably not the greatest pick for my bedtime reading as I was half asleep for much of the book... but I didn't really care for the plot or the romance or the characters. The prose was beautifully written though.