This was very charming and enjoyable. 
 It started out kind of rough, as indicated by my updates, and had a bunch of quotes that were just like ???? Like at one point the bitchy girl told Solara to pick up her dog's poop and was like "you'll recognize it cause it's the color of your hair." I'm paraphrasing but ???? Um brown? Like the most common hair color? Like mean girl DYES her hair pink, but other than her, it seems that normal genetics and hair colors are still happening here...soooooo...... 
 Once the story picked up, I found it all very entertaining. The main character is Solara, a semi-hardened attractive but self-deprecating "criminal," who is also an orphaned 18-year-old, mechanical engineer who is poor. Criminal is in quotes because, of course, her crime allows her to be a victim so the reader can relate better. The main guy, Doran, is a rich, hot, popular, billionaire, badboy 18-year-old who was in school with Solara and picked on her relentlessly because he felt intimidated by her and also because she has a small birthmark on her neck ...???? 
 So they know each other and board the same spaceship flight (this is an alternate world with space travel obviously) except Solara is employed as Doran's servant per-se and he is constantly a dick to her. Like he always has been. I knew from the beginning that this was gonna be a story about a stereotype boy who does awful things to the female mc and redeems himself by becoming nice and less of a stereotype. I was totally right. 
 Anyways, he threatens to kick her off the ship when he discovers she is a criminal and instead of leaving she stun-guns him and he conveniently forgets everything for a few days so she can re-maneuver the situation and get them on another ship. They go on a space adventure with a bunch of criminals and there are space pirates. :D Who doesn't love pirates. and pirates + space= yay. 
 This book didn't blow me away by any means, but I was really enchanted by it most of the story. The side characters were somewhat underdeveloped and lame, but they suited the story and that's okay. 
 The romance was slow-burn and delightful. We see a genuine build in Solara and Doran's relationship and can feel the electricity between them. Some parts were actually really sexy as well. YA surprising me with sexiness! 
 Who wudda thunk it.