I’ve been wanting to read SITS ever since the author released the cover more than a year ago. I continued to hear great things and then it won some big awards, so I snagged it on Audible. Two different narrators perform the two POV characters, and I enjoyed the female reader a lot more. Her accent for Tallie was perfect and she had a great range of voices. The male character sounded a little old for the age of the character and it’s always a little funny to me when the guy does women’s voices.
The story is an epic sci-fi romance. Hendryx pulled me into her exotic space world, starting with the fantastical circus—so fun! Each setting was unique and fun, and while I met a range of characters, I was glad than none were strange in an off-putting or creepy way. Note, the romance is front and center in this story. It’s clean (nothing beyond kisses) but there’s a lot of physical attraction and may go too far for young readers.