I've only read one Becky Chambers book before this one, A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but it seems like her books follow the same general themes: futuristic, peaceful societies with little to no violence, a healthy dose of optimism, and characters that have the personalities of modern Millennial urbanites, who are quite clearly the target audience here.This is a feel-good story, more focused on characters than plot and deeply introspective, it's a good, snappy read. Like all good sci-fi, it's a commentary on our society. In a society where everyone has access to everything they want and need, is there a point to anything? Does it matter if there's not? Poignant questions asked, probably impossible to answer,

One personal nitpick I will mention is that this book is chock full of "inclusive" language. I couldn't care less about a character's gender or sexuality, especially in a book like this where it doesn't matter in the slightest, but I'll never get used to reading "they" as a singular pronoun in written English. It took a while to get used to seeing it being used for a single personal continuously, and I think that's always going to be jarring for me. Doesn't take away from the story at all though, and a nice little thing for the people that it means something for.