I really wanted to like this book. I can see a world where a hardcore Jew in a space Navy would be a great character, unfortunately this book was… not well executed, in my opinion. some people seem to like it. cheers and celebration, but I was not able to finish the last 20 percent. the biggest mistake the author made seemed to be thinking that just because characters got emotional, we would too. usually, it just made those characters boring and piteous. congrats on a first novel, I think that’s big, and if this book is any indication of the themes to be explored in the future I’ll be interested in reading future books, but this one is just a bit to… amateur, I think, for me.