This book started off as great space opera. The climax appeared to happend about 3/4 of the way through the book leaving 25% of the book for the denoument. This seemed excessive especially since in mostly involved the protagonist telling everyone what happened in the first 3/4 of the story. This book needed to have a tighter ending.

Also, there was a bit about a model having a piece of important equipment in it that did not make any sense.

What did I like? I liked the main character. I cared about her and wanted her to succeed. However, everyone else seemed rather flat in comparasion. The situations they got in kept tension high for the first 3/4 of the book. The universe it was set in was interesting.

I will probably read the next book in the series because I do like the main character and want to see what happens next. I think the author left some clues in the first book that will fit in to later books.

3 stars. 3.5 for the first 3/4 and 2.5 for the denoument.