I'm keeping up and finding these for the most part enjoyable, but there's a lot of world, and the books seem too short to deal adequately with all the characters and events in a single novel. They feel artificially broken up.

I have finally put my finger on the one flaw that Elizabeth Moon has as an author. She doesn't do geography well. In the space novels I put this down to writing about especially awkward space and the difficulty of writing a good space battle. But I'm as disoriented as ever in these land-based novels. Yeah, there's a map. Yay. It doesn't really help. And the characters spend the majority of their time, it seems, moving from place to place. No writer is perfect, but this is proving to be distracting.

At some point, I'll go back and read the whole series from beginning to end.