So there are basically two main elements to the book:1) Where the heck are they and how do they get out alive?
2) What's with this guy who's an admiral but clearly not an admiral?
The first is handled with classic suspense/escape sensibilities - they come up with a plan, nearly succeed, plan fails and they're marginally worse off than before. Lather rinse repeat. This part holds together fine, it's a standard sci-fi model.
The second annoyed me tremendously. Within a few chapters, one of the underlings has figured out who the 'admiral' is, but they don't tell us. They drop hints like we know a darn thing about the worlds they come from. It's a series of inside jokes and the reader is on the outside. Throughout the whole book, exactly one paid off at all for me, and it was way too little after way too long. All the answers come in the final chapter, when two characters sit down and conveniently explain everything to the reader in a simple dialogue that no two human beings would ever have.
Will i read the next in the series? I don't know. It will depend a lot on whether it's building on these characters, or just the world they live in.
(I received a free ARC of this book from the Amazon Vine program.)
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