YA dystopian scifi with a MM love story in it. This is the kind of thing that will work for many different readers who want to see themselves in a book. Recommended for adventurous teen readers.

Sadly this was a miss for me, story wise as well as character wise. I continued reading in hopes it would get fun at some point but nada. *sigh*

Personally I just didn't like James very much. The way he thought, spoke, acted... I dunno. Just not the kind of guy I'd be able to see myself in or would love to meet and have a chat with.

The story... well, it started interesting but quickly lost it's spark for me :(

James's love interest seemed like a nice guy but we hardly get to know him, or at least it felt like they were still strangers by the end. Not much of a connection... The story also has a lot of political elements and was pretty boring. There's not much sic-fi about it, except for the setting.

The writing is decent but I found it weird that it has BE words in it (like lad and shag), but overall the grammar was AE. James also says dunno a lot, which seems more AE to me. All the while the original language on the planet wasn't even English, though James comes from London, Earth.

Felt a bit odd... Or like someone just couldn't make their mind up.