Wow this book is so crazy in a good way. You settle in for a comfy (and possibly slightly trashy) spaceship romance book where you can just switch your brain off and enjoy… and then it totally does a 180 and goes deep into this almost horror-like scenario which I can’t really explain any further without giving it away. But damn was it a good plot twist. The definition of not judging a book by its cover.
In a way I can understand why the book starts off so light-hearted and YA romance-like as the main character moons over the other guy on the spaceship - that helps make the twist mid-way through the book and the tonal shift all the more impactful. But also I wonder if the way the book was marketed and starts off would put people off from reading the book? Which is a shame, to me the plot was really good and they could have done it as a more serious sci-fi book and gotten more readership.