The authors have created a very intricate and detailed world, which earns them points, of course. But to dump it all from the get-go unto an unsuspecting reader... I had a problem with that. Too many "new" terms, too many "new" ideas, too many "new" concepts to process. More than 50% of the book is written in the lingo of that imaginary world (so you need to learn a new language, get your masters in a made-up astronomy-cosmology-etc. sciences and get acquainted with all the new races while trying to enjoy a book... no easy feat). And too much of the nauseating, overabundant detail littering the novel doesn't have anything to do with the story; it's just there, because it was created by the writers.
The story is interesting and the concept is quite new (points again), which is so refreshing (and the reason why I will continue reading this series), but I constantly wanted to tell the authors the famous Chekhov lines: "Remove everything that has no relevance to the story."
2 stars.
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