David Scrimshaw reviewed Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #1)
An exciting start to a new series
5 stars
This has everything I look for in space opera: - weird aliens who are wildly different from humans, - humans from different cultures with different strengths and weaknesses they have gained from those cultures, - a plucky team of misfits who muddle along and get things done, and - a really interesting story.