All in all, an excellent read.

While the book falters from time to time with not quite enough science-science and a bit too much science-magic for my tastes, overall it’s a refreshing variation on military sci-fi novels, and does a good job dealing with sentient AI overall.

Probably my one big gripe is the author pinning some of the philosophical discussions of death and the soul on a combination of a particular bit of pseudo-science woo already discredited in our time, and the presumption that such a thing as a soul might exist in the first place.

However the same theme in future books is a bit more balanced and not a huge part of the book so I’ll give it a pass.