Normally I don't go this harsh on Zahn, and I do know this book was originally supposed to be part of Outbound Flight and it had to be separated due to length constraints.

But hoo buddy. The pacing was so weird, even knowing it was an "excised" book. The pacing doesn't really match OBF, in that... It was all over the place. The beginning was slow with sections of tiny bursts of action, then more snail's pace, then dry spells, then ACTION EVERYWHERE and then tense politics then MORE ACTION weaved with random meal time and character angst and revelations and MORE ACTION and...

There's a reason it took me over a year to read, ADHD notwithstanding.

Mostly disappointed there was no closure for Thrass' death at all, amused at Mara and Luke's suspicion about Formbi, who does almost a complete 180 in personality, and I wish that eventually, there'd be a release of the books as they were meant to be read in their combined entirety.