Review: A step backwards for the series.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 11, 2014
The first two books have solid reads for me.  I enjoyed them even though I never really considered them a great space opera.  It was enjoyable way to pass the time with some interesting characters.  This book was a real challenge for me to read.  The series has never been great in it's development of it's tech, for me the characters and overall plot was the strong point and enough to get paste much of the flaws.I'm just going to say character development takes a pretty big step backwards for me.  In the majority of the book Jess stops being a character I'm interested and starts being one I tolerate.  It recovers slightly by the end.  The inter character interactions that I enjoyed in previous books leave pretty early in this book.Lastly a lot of the plot development takes place from alternate view points that don't really connect.  You spend the majority of the book wondering what the connection will be to join them up only to see that it doesn't really other then to give a backdrop for what's going on in the universe as a whole.  Maybe it will in the next book but it felt like a waste of time and the characters just didn't have the space to develop into something more then passing interest.The series as a whole has been a decent way to pass the time.  This book however brings me to the point of regretting my investment in it.  I just have no real desire to read more of it then passing curiosity.