I am so happy this book was featured in the February FairyLoot box as I was really looking forward to read this book. 
 This book has so many great elements that I rarely see in other stuff I read that it was a welcome difference. Nevertheless, there were moments where I caught myself more or less skipping over paragraphs or at least I was not paying full attention to what I read and had to re-read those sections. 
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 Overall the world building is lacking and the characters are very emotion driven, especially Rhee - she is to be the future empress but the way she acts, she is definitely not ready for this responsibility. I like though that the book is realisticly depicting that not all beings in a galaxy are humans or humanoid and they also have colour. It's also very nice that the book tries to incorporate some issues of ou world like racism, war, and the question of security due to new technologies and the internet. 
 It could have been so much more on top of being an easy and quick read. A real space opera...