Babylon's Ashes

Not one of my favorites in the series, plot wise. The book starts out with a mystery, veers away from it to focus on 1 man's inability to cope with rejection and failure, and only in the climax of the storyline does it come back to the mystery. And to make things worse, doesn't even explain the mystery. I hate when that happens. The logical side of me understands why it's not explained but my passionate side does have a right to object.

I was definitely happy to see Bobby, and Clarissa settling in to the family. And to continue to experience Avasarela's blunt talking.

I really appreciate that each chapter in each of the books, is titled with the person's point of view. It gives me time to remember where the storyline left off for this person and move along smoothly with the audio. I just read one hardback book where there wasn't even a visual announcement of the pov and/or scene change. Not even white space. The author was bouncing back and forth between the different storylines, sometimes with each paragraph, and I felt like I was often backtracking to figure out where I'd gotten lost and reread from the scene change to get back on track.