This book is such a ✨melting pot ✨ of genres! We have sci-fi, Mexican folklore, fantasy, dystopian society and coming of age. And the whole story mostly takes place in a spaceship.

Basically Earth is destroyed and a few selected people make it out. They were supposed to sleep until they arrived to their new planet and then start working on rebuilding our civilization anew... However on the journey, The Collective (a radical group convinced that culture corrupts humanity and individuality is dangerous for peace) takes over. 13 y/o Petra wakes up to realize that she is the only one who remembers life back on earth.

I can never get enough Hispanic heritage in a book (for obvs reasons) and the fact that this one's main theme was preserving all culture was amazing ❤️

The plot was very interesting and there is a copious amount of science!

We also have 🙌disability representation🙌as Petra has quite bad early onset retinitis pigmentosa.

The plot twist in this book was amazing and f*king heartbreaking 😭 I adored that part!

So why three stars then? Well, this should have been a series. I think there was too much information concentrated in here and we didn't have time to get to know the characters properly. They were gone before I had time to bond with them so I couldn't mourn them. We only get a deep dive on Petra and honestly she was too flawless of a character for a preteen 🙄 I wanted to spend more time with Javier as an adult, maybe see his POV. The lider of the Collective seemed torn but then that was left unexplored. I also wanted to see Petra actually becoming an adult and maybe space travelling telling stories. I needed more time and so the story fell short and I was kind of disappointed 😟