A space opera. New and fresh. There were so many things I appreciated about this book, so many clever concepts and new ideas. But the writing style missed the mark. The book flips between two POVs which are essentially written in the same voice and while even though that mechanism helps move the story along, it's not enough to overcome the long, LONG periods of tension where you're just waiting for the book to resolve in the way you know it will because, well...predictability. Also the "big reveals" didn't feel like that big of a deal. The concepts were really cool but the moments in which something important happened often felt like a magician who was more amazed by his own trick than the crowd was. Overall, it was a nice, quick read and I'm going to read the second in the series even though I don't currently know how I feel about each book centering on new characters. Cheers to an open mind.