I think I'm going to have to accept defeat.

I really want to like these books, the world building is amazing, they won lots of awards... I even gave the second one four stars... but I'm losing the will to read the third one. The first I sort of got into, but then didn't bother to come back to the series for over a year. The second got my attention, the comm politics stuff was really good, the third... uh... nothing is happening, the characters are dull...

I hate to abandon the series 5/6 of the way through, but there are other books.