I enjoyed this somewhat less than the previous two, primarily because it seemed to me to be just one long battle description. I liked Taki when we met her in Solarno the first time, but here her sections tended to be same-same-y air battles. Yes, the title is rather a tip of, but even so. Didn't she do anything else? Ever? Same with Stenwold. He's not really 'on camera' too much and when he is he seems to have mainly become rather bland and characterless. Perhaps a way of showing the psychological effects of the constant Wasp threat and all the losses and what not, but I have to say it made me like him rather less. Rather a lot less, actually.