This is an adequate, although rather generic, mil-fi story. Would have been ok except one cannot progress more than a paragraph or two without a prayer, or even worse, the sort of trite and meaningless apologetics argument, or other prose which seems to be more and more vindictive, and egregious, as the novel progresses.
And it’s not just ANY religion, it’s the western religions, with nary a mention of anything else, except, of course, for the atheists, which are seemingly the worst of the crew “for other reasons”. It all becomes rather tiresome, frankly, and after a few hours of it, I quit.
And that…the somewhat militant religiosity of this book … ruins whatever else it had going for it, and I am a moderately religious person.