What lets it down in my mind is that this is a classic 'middle book' - all the best worldbuilding was laid out in book one and the climax isn't coming until book three at the earliest, so we're left with something of a bridge between two other parts of the story. The author gives us a core cast of people who fit well enough to make up a crew and chafe at the edges of their roles just enough to keep things interesting, which I also like. Where he needs something to work, it works there's more handwaving than technobabble because the author writes about people more than protocols and methodologies, but I like that. The sci-fi is softer than most, but grounded in reality.
The ones which work for me tend to be by veterans who really know their warfare and storytellers who really know how to draw you in.
To really set itself apart in this area, a book needs to do something different. There's a whole genre of fairly forgettable sci-fi set on warships in deep space, released on Kindle by so many new and aspiring writers. A solid adventure that lands somewhere between space opera and military sci-fi.
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