Dancing With The Dead

I had a little trouble getting into this book at first. The world-building seemed incomplete. About a quarter of the way in it hit me that I had selected the second book in a series (my bad), and a lot of world-building and character development had already been done. I pushed on though, and it turned into a good SF-thriller. (I recommend reading the glossary at the back of the book before starting it.)
In Dancing With The Dead, We get a deep conspiracy involving terrorists, multiple races, and the dead. “The Dead?”, you say. Yup, they still exist on the other side of “The Veil”, and some of them are interested in the activities of the living. We also get some characters with psychic, even fantastical abilities. (Throw-back to some tropes that were popular back in the 1950s and '60s.)
The tale includes a love story involving quite a bit of inter-species sex, and there is some spiritual/philosophical stuff that may or may not appeal.
3.5 stars rounded up.