I enjoyed J.S. Morin’s “Robot Geneticist” series and “Galaxy Outlaws” much more than this one. The idea of it being a really twisted around series of biblical references was clever and well done (though Leslie Howard doesn’t handle the pronunciation of some of them well – which for me is a big flow-breaker). Mostly, I just had a hard time keeping in the flow of it. The payoff at the end is much better than the early books, so stick with it.
I should also note that it’s a great value, at 32 hours for the series, and I don’t regret the purchase.