As a massive fan of Asimov's Robots series, this was extremely disappointing.
Perhaps those expectations tainted my feelings towards this book, but regardless, that's how I feel.

This book was on par with some of the later Dune books. The reader is flooded with names and terms and colloquialisms we have no understanding of and are expected to understand what we're reading straight from the start, same crime as the later Dune books.

The names of characters are so unmemorable and even some of the characters acted the same, it was hard to differentiate between the different characters, and their unmemorable names didn't help at all.

The premise itself was interesting but very similar to Dune:

a book in which you follow the history through hundreds of years of human societal growth. You had a Galactic Empire projected to fall, and a man who has figured out how to save it, same as Leto II from Dune, you also had the use of religion to manipulate society towards said saving.

Honestly, God Emperor of Dune did it better.

I'm moving onto book 2 now, there were some good parts of this book, specially the second half, which leads me to hope the books will improve from here, but alas, not a great start.