A good read. Perhaps very good if you read the whole series (?).
There was much attention to detail, too much. So much in setting scenes, at times you just wanted to yell "get on with it".
I don't know what's a set up for the rest of the series, but as a stand alone book, there was a great deal of subplots, several which were never explained what they had to do with anything else in the book. I would have much rather have had more of the central plot fleshed out, & had the whatever the subplots were alluding to dealt with when it came time to tell their story, assuming there will be one in one of the other books in the series. It felt like the arc movie that plays between two blockbusters to set the stage & grab your dollars.
Although original, the juxtaposition & interaction of the characters on the ship felt very definitely Star War-ish

—Lizil from Amazon