Humanity with romanticized view on embracing issues caused by cultural differences continues completely destroying 95% of members of other cultures they meet in interstellar setting. Following the brain worms, to humans incomprehensible battleship Leaviathan’s telepathic AI, whims and wishes human space force discovers incongruities in AI’s narrative, what a shocker. The conflict progs (progenitors) have been engaged in for millenniums and human likeness to progs bodes well for the alien culture conflict resolving approach the military branch has set forth on (/sarcasm).
An interstellar civilization that engages in contests on physical fitness to resolve any disputes both on individual and group level sounds so incongruous. Analogous to a caveman in modern urban city. The 180° of space force major about workplace romance when he gets the chance is dumbing down the character so much. Unrequited romantic feelings are human, but this is just inconsistent character writing.
Conclusion: 2/5. Listened on Audible included in plus catalogue. Narrated by: Shawn Compton. With addition of multiple romantic character progressions book 2 turned the series from space opera to space soap opera. If only we could talk about our differences we would understand each other has historically worked so well on a scale of a single planet with a single sapient species. Of course, it’s bound to work with alien species with which humanity shares nothing in common (culture, physical traits, physiological needs, history etc.). Terrible value for the length of the book, buying it with USD- 1.87 $/hour ( 17.19 $ / 09 hrs 11 mins ).
Values:
Terrible: >1.66 $/hour
Bad: 1 – 1.66 $/hour
Good: <1 $/hour
Dream: 0.4 – 0.27 $/hour
Stars:
1 – Not worth the resources to reproduce/preserve this title.
2 -Bad
3 -Good
4 – Personally, love it
5 – Recommended to everyone