I completely enjoyed this book that is set in a different part of Ann Leckie's Ancillary universe. The tone and energy is nothing like the tone and energy in the Ancillary stories. But like those books, it is fun.

I liked:
- how different human cultures really can't understand each other and how the aliens are even less understandable than the humans;
- how likable various characters were; and
- the way gender and sexual orientation is treated.