This novel is one that falls in the "good, not great" category for me. The characters were lively and the author did a great job of building not only backstory into the main story to paint a picture of why we should want to follow along on their journey, but took adequate time to flesh them out fully as well. At the end of the novel, all had a satisfying (albeit, not necessarily the expected) conclusion to their story and the reader could certainly connect with them along the way. 

The concept was very high science fiction: lots of robots, sentient artificial intelligence, space, and invasive drones. At points during the story, it got a bit convoluted and it was hard to picture some of the tech and understand what the author was explaining was happening. Not to the point that I got lost, but I needed to slow my reading a bit to get all the facts and not miss something. 

I gave this novel 3/5 stars because even though the characters were intriguing and there was absolutely an action component to the story, it was very slow at times and the story failed to fully capture my attention.