When the main character showed up commenting on the attractiveness of every woman he met, and they all seemed really into him, I was all set to not like this book. But I warmed to him soon enough, those problems mostly went away, and boy oh boy, was this a fun read. The setting is interesting, the premise is interesting, and the plot and the twists just keep going. It ended up as a sort of Die Hard in space with interesting physics going on.

There were a fair few technical explanations, but they never felt out of place or excessive, and I didn't find they ruined the pace of the book for me. I also quite liked how the main character's backstory ended up woven through the plot. I'm going to have to check out a few more of Stith's books at some point.