Interstellar Megachef

Fun read. I loved the cultural and queer representation. A bit frustrating at times, since the author had a habit of making a side character essentially tell one of the leads "this thing you're doing is problematic," and the lead go "huh. that's true," and then go and do it anyway. Almost as if they had written themselves into a corner, but instead of reworking things, decided to acknowledge (and then ignore) the problem they'd noticed. It was after I finished it that I learned it was apparently written during the pandemic while the author was at home, and a part of me went "yeah that makes sense." A rambling story. Still a fun read!

I really wanted to like and enjoy this book, However I walked away disappointed. It remains a well written story with a simple plot with over bounding flaws. The main character gets lost and overshadowed in the author's attempt to present a futuristic woke worldview that obviously does not hold up well to inspection. Its almost as if the author got trapped in their own thought bubble and couldn't escape dragging things from todays society that obviously are important to them now but don't fit in the future millennium from now.