We had to do several assignments on genre novels in librarian school and the thing about genre books is that they can often be enjoyed as a typical example of their genre whilst still being terrible books. This, however, is a perfect example of how fun a genre novel can be. Would my Mum enjoy it? No. Is it a great piece of literature? Probably not. Is it a lot more fun and engaging that a lot of other sci-fi I have read? Yep. I wish Ann Aguirre would write Star Wars books because although I love that world, some of the books could reeeally benefit from her character building, humour and action writing.