I gave up maybe 2/3rds of the way through.

I liked the premise and the initial worldbuilding, but the exploration of race and imperialism was blunt and simplistic--like it was pretending to be saying something interesting, but was really just using those injustices as a source of plot-necesssry hardship for the protagonist.

This alone didn't bother me too much. I was enjoying the book and probably would have finished it, but then the plot shifted towards action about halfway through. This was jarring, and never quite felt real. Similar to my criticism above, because it never felt as emotionally impactful as it seemed to think it was being, everything felt a little melodramatic and "PG-13 pretending too hard to be R" like I was reading a edgy YA novel (to be fair, I felt that way about her previous books).

And maybe I just stopped too early, but the themes around "translation" didn't seem to be going anywhere.

Overall, I like that she's changing things up and think she has a lot of promise as a writer, but this felt a bit amateurish, or maybe just rushed.