update: 1/3

My full review is here!

Loved this book! Screamed about it, texted friends about it, giggled out loud, punched my fist in the air, and felt many many things while reading it. If you're looking for something to get you through the doldrums of a post-Mandalorian season ending world and don't mind some romantic subplot melodrama and hacking with your bounty hunting, this is the book you've been looking for!

The first page is probably the hardest to get through, in all honesty, and that's probably because I'm an adult. I initially DNF'd it when it debuted because it had Not Like Other Girls dog whistling for me. But don't worry! Emika Chen is not an NLOG! Just stick with her past the description of her rainbow hair you'll see.

I knocked the review down to 4 stars for a few small reasons: negative/stereotypical views of sex work (minor, but it comes up a few times in the book), the two books (Wildcard the sequel) could and probably should be one long book because there will be a tonal dissonance between them if I'm correct, and a slightly predictable "twist" (cliffhanger?) at the end, and not enough went into fleshing out the side characters.

The rest of this book is executed so well, it holds this review steady at 4 stars.

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Review to be posted soon!