A fun read overall with some very good world building and a slew of different inhabitants. The story is along the lines of a space opera - could see this being a series and there is a ton of backstory revealed in the visions that abound in the book.

My real beef is that it is overlong and too intimately detailed - especially some of the action scenes. I found myself in the will-this-ever-end frame of mind for the last part of the book.