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This is one of those books where the action sequences deliver, and you can actually believe in the team. It reminds me a bunch of early Culture novels, only instead of force fields and minds, you have magic shields and contracts tying everything together, like in the Craft Sequence but with spaceships.

Ironically, having magic be explicit with spaceships goes a long way to making the space opera more realistic in my mind, since there's no point handwaving with FTL drives and the like. It's magic. Deal with it.

My only gripe is that the villains are too villainous. I don't think anyone really talks about themselves like that.

It told me to make a tomato puree out of four tomatoes. No experienced chef believed me when I told them this.

A beautiful story about a manic pixie dream shapeshifter who kills people.

Perfectly serviceable story about copyright dispute.

It’s a ghost story where an English professor talks about his career and people talk about Dickens as if it matters. The single best part of the book is when Roger gets punched in the face by his wife.

I bought this book on kindle from a recommendation in r/wierdlit and I want my 99 cents back.

Stress has finally written a decent female protagonist.