I have to say that this book felt a bit like a step down in terms of enjoyment for me.
The books starts with Hughes waking up not really knowing where he is but obviously he is badly screwed. Then, for most of the part, it is a long sequence of flipping back and forth in time between Hughes extricating himself from this situation and how he ended up in it in the first place.
I really did not like this. I do not like books with a lot of flashbacks in general and this was nothing but a long string of flashbacks. I would have much preferred if this story was told in a more linear fashion.
For the story itself, well, unfortunately I did not care very much for that one either but that���s more of a personal taste.
Hughes & Co approaches the Union with news of the new threat and at the beginning it seems to go in the right direction. Unfortunately a pissant Admiral with a way overgrown ego and ingrown hatred for Hughes & Co not only decides to go behind his supervisors back but using the Union’s enemies to do it. So of course shit hits the fan which leads us to a sequence of action events, breakouts, rescues and, of course now Hughes & Co are chased by the Union again.
The book is not really bad on a chapter per chapter basis. It has a lot of what I liked about the previous books, characters, action etc…, in it. But I got so annoyed by the constant jumping back and forth and by the fact that this entire shitstorm was due to previously mentioned pissant Admiral.
At least the ending epilogue was fairly cool although I would have liked a somewhat different outcome from it. One where that asswipe Admiral was taken out of future books.
Well, I guess one can not have everything one wants.