Just Out of Jupiter's Reach

This is one of my favorites from this series, along with the first one, How It Unfolds by James S.A. Corey

Cool Concept

Amazing concept, wtf ending

This was not for me didn't enjoy it at all

I thought the concept was kind of neat but the story was just not good. If the ships are limited to imprinting on one person based on DNA then why are animals permitted on board in the first place? The ships were kind of cool but I think there were too many characters for a short story to sustain. There was one character who just announces that she's trans and then doesn't do anything else, there's a character the pov character is really judgmental of because she has allergies (??), a guy whose only character trait is old, a guy who had pet crabs, a guy I forgot about until he committed suicide, a guy who ATE SOMEONE'S PET and has tattoos or whatever and the main character, who has a comically stupid backstory and makes the worst decisions imaginable. What was the point of this?

Don't mess with someone else's crabs.