Working my way slowly through the TBR pile. As one does.
This book was fun and flashy and fast-paced (and clever) enough to mostly gloss over the fact that the world building felt more like window dressing than deep engagement with how things grew to be the way they are.
It's space opera and well within the boundaries of the genre to just say "This is the way things are, let's watch it go boom!"
Also...impressed? is impressed the right word? that the Wagers managed to create a matriarchy that doesn't really alter gender socialization as such. But this also gets into the sense that the book is a delightfully exuberant play where you shouldn't really check the scenery because obviously it's all pasted on.
This barely registered while I was reading it, naturally. If one could dump space opera on a continuum with, say, Star Wars at one end and The Expanse at the other, Wagers is definitely on the Star Wars end. So enjoy it! I certainly did enough to want to read the next book.