This took me six weeks to read and it felt long as hell. So much of the middle felt unnecessary. Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just bad at reading sci-fi, but at times the descriptions of the setting or the tech they’re using is very difficult to imagine. Like the author will be describing something and the image in my head is not loading. So much felt way more complicated than it needed to be. At the mid-point of the book, I had decided I wasn’t interested in reading the third installment when it came out. But then those last 150 pages… damn do they know how to end on a cliffhanger! I want to know what happens!! Also not a lot of likeable characters in this one? And while there is some smut, absolutely no romance. Total downgrade from the throuple scenes in the first book.