The writing is great, the only distaste I must confess is the lengths the author goes to write up more of the behind the scene thoughts and the mansplaining of the world building. The constant and tremendous amount of political drama takes away much of the allure I started with for the depth of the military sci-if. This writing barely had any HONOR content it was so much of the dead space content you see from writer that get into contracts they hate. Often times I pick up a series in its latter books. If the book excites me I will run off and pick up book 1 and start from the beginning. Had this been the first book that exposed me to honor or the author I never would’ve read another.

As the series has progressed, these books have gotten slower moving and less exciting. They are much heavier on societal descriptions, long winded political intrigue that often goes nowhere and much less devoted to space opera action. And yet, somehow the books are still intriguing and even though I often skip parts of the them, I still read to the end and start the next one!