I really wanted to like this more, given how much I just love the Murderbot series. But for me it started confusing, got more confusing, and then resolved in a way that was slightly less confusing but I still don't really understand what happened. The world-building is rich but also extremely complicated, and the book regularly shifts between long past, middle past, and the present. There are several different kinds of people/entities and across and between them there are shifting alliances that change depending on where you are in the timeline. I usually love a really complex book but I just could not get a handle on this one.