I was really busy and had my hands very full, so I didn’t do due diligence, to check on this author ahead of time. Trusting the ratings was a mistake. I just flat out stopped the 4th book today because I couldn’t take one more of the exact same description of the Utaki hair. 25% of the book is repetition. Repetition of facts, descriptions, phrases, words, it’s like nails on the chalkboard at this point. It goes on and on and on. The author needs to learn how to use thesaurus and how to write dialogue. The worst part is even though the characters have super varied backgrounds and stories, they all sound the same, and are extremely poorly developed. Everyone in this book smirks. All the time. And chagrins. There is very little emotional depth, or any semblance of adult maturity. The plot is very predictable, yet somehow the main character (who’s so intelligent!) and all the super powerful AIs need chapters upon chapters to figure out there are more than one enemy ships, as if that wasn’t obvious from the get go. The premise of the book sounded fun, I was really hoping the writing would get better, but I can’t take it anymore. I can’t take any more of the same exact descriptions of the dragon and her eyes in every single chapter, of the Utaki hair, of the deadliest assassin in 30 worlds, just can’t.