3.5 stars. First off, it's pretty rare that I move straight from book 1 to book 2 in a series. Which says something in itself. Fortune's Pawn had an ending which DEMANDED that I continue with the series immediately, and since so much happened - betrayals, deaths, twists etc - I feared that my sieve-brain would not be able to contend with a break. 
 This second novel was very much the same in that regard. It's packed to bursting with reversals of fortune (ha), new terrors, epiphanies, and madcap plans. This is one thing that Rachel Bach does very well - the plot moves at such a breakneck pace that it's hard to get bored. Characters barely touch their toes to a new planet before something explodes, and while this makes for a great reading experience, it does also allow us to perhaps skim over some of the details. 
 This was an issue for me in Fortune's Pawn, too. Secondary characters got so little screen time that it was difficult to feel any warmth or coldness to any of them. And while we may learn more about these characters here, they still remain largely two dimensional. (view spoiler)[When Mabel the cheery engineer turns out to be an ice cold undercover symbiont agent, I couldn't really care less, since all I knew about her was: 1) she was cheery; and 2) she had a cat. (hide spoiler)] 
 Many reviewers here seemed to dislike the romance aspect of this book, and while it is definitely hard to miss, I didn't find it completely offensive. Yes, sometimes it made me grimace - the romance feels cheesy and I can only bear so many longing glances - but I didn't find it to detract from the action packed plot. In fact, the relationship between Devi and Rupert made for one pretty edge of your seat fight scene. (view spoiler)[(Just ignore the unbelievable kiss and make up scene later). (hide spoiler)] 
 My main issue with this novel was that Devi seemed to have gotten a lot stupider. Honestly. She was already a shoot-first kind of girl and that was fine, but now she's a shoot-blindly-and-hope-for-the-best-without-even-a-moment-of-logical-thought kind of girl, which was a bit less than fine. She makes decisions that are so obviously stupid to the reader that at one point I set it down, breathed a deep breath, and accepted that the next 60 pages or so would play out exactly how I expected. Spoiler - they did. Bach tries to keep us on our toes and largely succeeds, but in moments like this, due to our heroine's idiocy, we skip through a few long scenes of daring-do to end up exactly where we were 100 pages ago. 
 Regardless of this, I'm going to read Heaven's Queen right away. Like I said, sieve-brain. And despite its flaws, Honor's Knight has got me excited for the wrap-up. I don't much care whether Devi and Rupert manage to settle their differences, but I am wondering how Devi is going to get herself out of the next tight spot. Plus, it's easy to read and full of completely bonkers action scenes (and let's be honest, they're sometimes the best kind).