the story has slowly gotten better and more accurate as far as not pulling the reader out of the story due to horrible references or political ramblings.
So far there hasn’t been a single reference to ground as “earth”. previous books multiple times “said the Earth”. You’re not on Earth, therefore you’re not pulling anything out of the Earth. The ground is not the Earth. The biggest complaint I have in all these books is the author says things without actually stopping to think if what he’s saying is correct. A great example in this book is, they reference a creature that is the size of a football field, three times the size of a blue whale and then immediately follow that up by saying it’s larger than a Megalodon. A Megalodon at most was 60 ft a blue whale is 100 ft. it’s like the author saw Jurassic Wrold and assume that movie was accurate on the size of a Megalodon.
The story so far has been pretty smooth and continuous and hasn’t going off on tangents. the character development has been rather impressive in this book compared to previous ones. the characters have lived up to who they are in personality and not diverged into areas they wouldn’t have done, especially in relation to trauma.
if this was the author’s first series then the author has definitively improved. the next series by this author very much so we’ll be an impressive series if he keeps improving as he has.