Dauntless

Very well told and kept my attention. Really appreciated the “realism” portrayed of what traveling and waging war at high speeds in space involves as far as distances, time, strategy, etc. The only downsides were the constant self-doubt in the protagonist's internal dialog (although very reasonable, it became tedious) and the constant “political” undermining, maneuvering, hostility (also not unreasonable, unfortunately, but also grew tedious). How may times does this have to happen before real change can be seen? But I still enjoyed the book and will likely pick up the sequels.