3 stars

This had a lot of the humor, at least in the beginning. It started like a romance and we were getting to know, Ekan pretty well. Other than he doesn't hurt her, he is quite a dickwad and doesn't ever really grow out of that, he had a couple of nice parts but they argue, a lot. The 4 others, we don't really get to know well enough to have or feel a connection, we get like one aspect of each. Still the humor persisted and made it so the romance did not matter as much even though it seemed more an acceptance of these nice guys and the pretty good set up rather than that she even loved even one of them, I never felt it.
Then the plot meandered. The birth which we were waiting for since the last 4 books, is not well planned either as an author and explaining or these guys and Beth planning ahead.

Spoiler

Beth explains after she is stuck in labor for hours, that they had outfitted the room for birth and they looked at what was needed... but they knew nothing. They didn't understand the afterbirth or... well anything. Then after labor has been stuck for a long time, they go to get help from another human, who has experience with goats on a farm. Some humor there but it seems like the babe would've come in the time that it takes them to find a ship that they can accost with a human, right? The timing was off in the whole thing and having had the experience twice myself with stalled labor in both. I just felt that part off.

And then there was planning a trip to Earth, which although fun and humorous wasn't much of a plot. That they visited

Spoiler

her ex, and she was alright with really murdering him because he was an asshole. It was a mob vengeance type scene and that she was OK with it but not with pirating by her guys...

well maybe that is why she excepts the guys the way they are, with all their bad habits, especially Ekan.
So it was humorous which saved it from being just OK but mostly it was just good and a bit of meh. Nice to see some of the others too.