While it has been noted by many other readers, the first book does take some time to introduce and develop the main concept of the series: there is another galaxy that runs on magic versus technology and the main character has to deal with that issue, being a pragmatic engineer. While it might not be executed in a an extremely efficient manner at first and the concept is drip-fed to the reader, it does begin to pick up in books two and three.
Concepts and characters are well thought out and developed and the world building (or galaxy-building in this case) is very interesting to imagine a realm run by magic versus technology. Scott does a good job of building tension and intrigue once the characters have been established and there’s more to the story than first meets the eye, but it can take a bit for the story to hook readers.
I look forward to the next trilogy and eventually see where this series goes as there’s some interesting threads being pulled here.