This book has a fantastic space opera world built-up with a little awe-and-wonder mystery, wonderful politics, and great close-combat military action. The hilarious sarcastic super-AI is wonderful and the "patron race" hierarchy concepts from David Brin's (far better!) Uplift books are good. However, Alanson goes too far to explain too much, instead of enabling events to uncover the strict rules of the magic system and leaving lots of frustrating mystery to uncover. "Show the reader, don't tell the reader!" The gritty military experiences of "hurry up and wait," SNAFUs and ClusterFcks, are also wonderful and draw in the reader. I can't wait to continue reading the books. 4/5 Stars. Highly enjoyable!
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