I wanted to like this book, I really did, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't connect to the characters. They were written as such caricatures and stereotypes that I spent more time rolling my eyes than nodding along. Crater, the main character, a 17 year old boy working on the moon mining for Helium-3, a source of power up there, was too naive to believe. His adopted brother, Petro, the Prince of Wales, was just unlikeable. And trying to buy into Queen Elizabeth as just a regular lady trying to get by, who goes by the unlikely nickname of Q-Bess, was too much for me. There was so much information dropped on you throughout this book that it was too much tell and not enough show;. By the end, I was getting used to all of these problems and annoyances, but not enough to want to read the next book in this series.

Because I think this book was just not for me, but might be for others if they want to give it a try, I'm giving it 2.5/5 stars.

I received a copy of this book free of charge in exchange for my honest opinion.