Insurrection

It's not a bad book. The pacing is good, with the authors skipping over periods of inaction to the next event of importance, rather than dwelling on all the down time between major events. Also, there are a number of strong female characters

Most of the characters do have a tendency towards being unrealistically competent, a flaw in many works of military fiction, but this is modified somewhat by most characters also having at least some flaws.

The biggest problem, and it doesn't come up too often, is that this retelling of the American Revolution in space is a bit heavy handed at times. It’s also quite comical when the main “founding father” character reflects on how he’s the “real” conservative after having disparaging thoughts about “liberals” in a crisis situation brought about by the setting's equivalent of a politically active billionaire. I’m hoping that such a lack of awareness was meant to be a flaw in the character.