Primary Inversion

Primary Inversion is a very mixed bag of a story. It starts out with leanings toward military SF, shifts into a little of a Romeo & Juliet'ish romance, rushes to action, drops back for introspection on freedom, liberty and sacrifice, then back to the romance. In between are various jumps are spurts of techno-babble and exposition that never quite gain complete coherence.

While the basic conflicts are fairly clear, a lot of detail about the Skolian and Trader societies is lacking, with hints that there is a lot of potentially very interesting things waiting to be exploited by the author (and I know there are more books in the universe/series which may in fact do just that). Not a great book, but a lot of potential.