The Confederation is made up of many various star systems. The majority lie thousands of light-years away from Earth. And freedom isn't the standard. The corruption of the government agencies that control the Confederation runs deep. Those who patrol it are just as corrupt. 
 Absolute power is there for the taking. Those with enough avarice and malevolence will be the ones to claim it. The key to gaining all the power is metatech. These devices allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light. 
 A crew of ragtag teenage mercenaries survive by stealing unsecured metatech. And it's something that Jeth and his crew are rather good at. Jeth doesn't care much for the law or politics for that matter. The only things important to him are money and his sister Lizzie. The money he needs to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer. Once he has full ownership of Avalon, the plan is to get out of town with Lizzie. 
 However, when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, his plans seem to have changed. To what lengths will Jeth go to get the freedom 
 he's wanted for so long. And will this conspiracy ultimately threaten the entire galaxy. 
 Sounds cool, right? Unfortunately for me, Avalon didn't live up. First I want to talk about the world building. I found myself floating around in space failing to truly grasp my surroundings. The little things would be described, but for the most part I felt lost. The description here was so sparse that even my imagination struggled to fill in the gaps. 
 The main let down for me was the characterization. I just didn't particularly like anyone. Avalon is by no means a character driven book. There isn't a lot of dialogue, and what little there is didn't further develop the characters for me. Most of what I knew about them was 'told' to me. 
 With the issues I mentioned, this book left me feeling detached to everything. There are plenty of action sequences and some of the scenes provided the dark material that comes with corruption. In fact, it's because of the decent pacing that I kept on reading. There was brutality and even then I just didn't care. Which left me feeling confounded. 
 There's also a touch of romance but to me, it felt like such a distraction. In the midst of all this savagery, the romance just feels unnecessary. This only furthered my disengagement. In the end, I just wasn't invested in Avalon and at the moment I don't see myself continuing this series.