This is actually about three stars higher than I was expecting to give this book. I am very pleasantly surprised by this. There are three main reasons I thought I wouldn't like this book. 
 1. Sci-Fi just really isn't my thing. Space and technology and angry AI, just not up my alley. 
 2. The term "space opera romance" sounded like garbage to me tbh. 
 3. I thought the format (which btw is super, super cool) would make it impossible to connect to the characters and the events in the book. 
 I don't know why this Sci-Fi worked so well for me when other's have failed so horribly, but I really loved the plot of this book, complete with the highly entertaining AI AIDAN. Maybe I just need to read better written Sci-Fi, because the genre of this book and the space setting it brought made it better for once, not worse. The questions about humanity, and what it means to be human, are something I understand are in a lot of Sci-fi, especially ones that deal with AI, and usually these come off as too philosophical for me, but I thought they were really well presented in this book. This may have been helped by giving us the perspective of the AI itself, a format that made this book super interesting to read. I enjoyed the questions about love, and especially about fear, and the exploration of these really made me think about life. (slight existential crisis but it's okay) 
 THE ROMANCE WAS SO SWEET. I loved Kady so much, the badass bitch that she was, and Ezra was such a cute little fluff, and I loved them so much and I wanted them to be together so badly. I loved how they started off, and where their relationship went. I adored the complete and utter love they had for each other, and it just made everything so much more high-stakes (and also adorable). The characters individually were amazing too, and the romance didn't dictate their entire personality, so major points for that. My love for Kady is so real honestly. This badass chick was such an awesome character, and I loved how determined, unwavering, and smart she was. Damn, hackers are my favourite thing ever, and I want nothing more than to be best friends with the criminal mastermind that is Kady. Ezra was a sweetheart, and there is nothing I wanted more than for him to be safe. 
 I give 10,000 points to the authors for making it possible to connect with all the characters in a format that was so unusual. (view spoiler)[(when Jimmy was left there to die, I wanted to cry, and when they airlocked Chatter and all the pilots it severely hurt my heart, and if you can do that with a format like this, that should make your reader detached from the story, then you my friend deserve all the points) (hide spoiler)] I didn't feel detached or disconnected at all, and honestly the way this format is presented, I think it actually made me connect with it more. Plus it was SO COOL TO LOOK AT. 
 Overall, I waited too long to read this book in fear of hating it, but I loved it a lot, and now I need the second one immediately. At least my reluctance to read this book earlier means that I don't have to wait to read the next one.