This book was about 3.5-stars read until the 75% mark for me. This was a book that I read with someone and that made the experience all the more enjoyable. The story was promising, the characters ranged from okay to interesting and while there were some odd choices made... it was generally fun. My biggest critic of the first 75% of the book was that Ford could have definitely used another round of editing. At the 75% mark, some things went down and it felt like things really started shooting a bit wildly from the hip. Like some things were still interesting, but it felt a bit chaotic and a bit rushed. I didn't dislike it, but it made me feel like a 3.5 was a bit generous and so here we are. But I'm defs reading the next book as I'm interested to see where things go.