I loved the story and the characters from front to back of all 16.5 missions. I did feel like there were some holes in the story like after receiving the expensive racing ship, but then the next chapter is like. “Oh, how poor are we, we are going to act like we never had a successful mission” You just got a verify high end craft.. However, this book is just amazing. All other aspects of the book outweigh the issue with the one or two holes.