4.5/5
You're telling me someone wrote a Sailor Moon inspired fairy tales retelling? And that it's YA? Yup, count me in. I'm not a super fan of sci-fi most of the time, but the sci-fi in this is more of a futuristic fantasy than a space setting/existential technology issue thing, even though there is some space and existential technology stuff here and there.

I really liked this book a lot. I think both main characters are likeable, even though maybe they are not the most complexe characters to ever exist and a little YA-cliché. They do what they are here to do as main characters of a YA book and that's enough for me. Also, they are not angry enough at everything to be outright unpalatable.

I liked the cyborg stuff, I liked the setting of the Earth post WW4 (or 5, I don't remember), I liked the plague element to it (considering I've read this during the covid pandemic on top of that), I liked the bioelectricity mind-controling thing (or wtv it's called). I also quite enjoyed that the vilains are actual vilains with bad intentions. I like hating vilains and that there's no need for them to have some complicated past or purpose or some kind of redeeming quality. Sure, things are a bit manichean, but I don't need books to always be nuanced in everything. Manichean stuff are nice and enjoyable if they are done right, and it's done right here.

The ending is a little too cut dry for me however, and that's the main issue I have resulting in knocking off .5 points. I felt like someone ran with scissor at the story to make sure there was an end to this book yet it could have been handle a little smoother. It's not exactly a cliffhanger, and I don't feel it's an open ending either. I don't know what it is, but I was annoyed by it a little.