Eh, I tried. It failed to catch me, and it's just not for me. As far as I got, it was 10% story, 90% history/world building/science/anthropology lesson which I just feel like could have been delivered in a more story-integrated way. As it is, it's incredibly dense and incredibly dull. And then suddenly, combat! Wait, what? I have no idea where that came from and it took me a long time to work out that it was some kind of excercise or something.

I may come back to it and give it another try at a later date, because I thought it really did sound interesting and I'm not entirely ready to accept that it isn't. But for now, this is me giving up.