I think I have to give up on Elizabeth Moon. Yet again a book of Ky being blatantly a bitch to Stella and other people and always being made out to be in the right even though she never, ever gives anyone not in her command the consideration she is so insistent they give to her.

The plot was just as awkwardly paced, boring, and riddled with holes as the first book in the renewed Vatta series.

Honestly one of the biggest disappointments of 2018. I genuinely expected more of Moon, and something actually readable, but this is not that. Kylara Vatta is honestly one of the least likeable protagonists I've ever had the displeasure of reading. I'm tapping out because it can only get worse from here.