I got about halfway through Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn and gave up. I can see why it was nominated on the Goodreads Choice Awards last year because it has LGBT characters and it’s very clearly about modern times, but that’s exactly why I tossed it. It’s too close to modern times, especially in the last couple of weeks, and the characters felt like the author was playing buzzword bingo. “Okay, I have a lesbian character, now what if I made a Black lesbian character? Do I have a transgender character yet? No, let’s toss one in there. What about genderqueer? Is there one of those yet? No? Okay, let me shoehorn her in somewhere.”
Maybe if these characters had anything other than the most surface motivation for anything they did and grew and changed through the course of the story I might have been able to tolerate them. But such things are not done in Buzzword Bingo.
Also the science in this science fiction is extremely iffy. In one scene the Atlantic Ocean is described as full of trash, but in another scene two characters go swimming in it and don’t seem to be bothered with the trash which may or may not be in it, I think the author forgot. And another character is chosen to bear the CEO’s child so the egg is just implanted in her with exactly zero prep. I have never gone through IVF but I know people who have and I remember the extremely long preparation process that they went through before anyone ever thought of implanting an egg.