I read these books mostly for the main character, who only disappointed this go-round by falling into a love interest subplot. Yes, they both like to snark, but for the vast majority of their time together, he was actively a drag on her doing her job, but yet she still found him charming for reasons that I just didn't really get. They were all in a life-and-death situation, and yet he kept taking up her attention as a leader while she was trying to get them to safety much longer than I thought made sense, either for him to do or her to put up with.

The plot was ok. Just ok, in that there was a big deus ex machina as a plot device, which kept pushing everyone around for no discernible reason. The subplots were really more interesting: the usual back and forth in the squad, the squad dynamics, the other secondary characters, and the introduction of some more information about the Others was welcome.