Ninefox Gambit

My god did this book miss the mark for me. Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind, but reading this was tortuous. It took me ages to work out what was going on and, although it picked up in the final 20%, at no point did I care about the motivations of anyone involved. I almost DNF'd this multiple times.

Granted, the world-building obviously took a lot of effort, but maybe some time making it a little less opaque would have been better.

I was going to give this a 2, but I'll settle for a generous 3, since the universe building is at least unique.