I had just finished a final and I needed something fun for the subway ride home, now that, with semester's end, I can read for fun again. Grabbed this randomly, largely because it was one of the only sci-fi books on the store's bargain shelf that didn't seem to be part of a series. I read about 40 pages before reading online that it's the third in a trilogy. Got halfway before that fact started to really work against my enjoyment (the first section worked great on its own). Gave up for something less tethered to other things. So no rating.