You could’ve gone the whole book without bringing up smoking… ?
At least you dropped the fake Seattle BS.
Still though, the background and universe is really well thought out. Like the fact that there are nonsensical rules that have sensical origins. The legal ramifications, the vetos, the space opera, the fact that the main characters aren’t #1 at everything… It’s really nice to see something this well fleshed out. (It was one of my biggest pet peeves in YA fiction like Harry Potter, or even TV shows like Star Trek)… The one place I can fault it here is that somehow Earth TV is the best TV the universe has ever seen? That can’t be true (kind of ridiculous really). But it’s possible that the characters who believe this just have bad taste (or in Donut’s case, like how much alien “TV” has she really watched anyway?) ?