3.5 stars

Thank you NetGalley for the audiobook ARC

This is a bit of a strange one, and I don't think I ever really Got It - I kept waiting for it to click and it just never did. There story is told through a first person POV of a person figuring out their gender, and a third person POV of a alien prince that'd run away from home with his AI ship. I never really understood the connection.

The first story was also a bit confusing to me. The universe is the exact same as our own, except women have to wear stamps on their cheeks that says SHE, and also the narrator can touch people's skin and see a flash of their future. I think the stamps was a metaphor for makeup, but I don't understand the future sight and how it related to the story at all. I did like the main narrator's gender journey and their friend Theo a lot, but the rest of the story was a bit of a miss for me.

The author narrates the book, and does a good job. I think the writing is good as well, I just didn't actually get what the point of the book was.