Title: Fleet logistics, battlefield ethics and dimensionless characters
Review: Halfway through the book I realized that nothing had happened; the fleet is still crippled and demoralized, there has been zero character development and the author has yet to even figure out the main conflict of the story. At the time I gave up the protagonist what fuming that his battered and exhausted crew wasn't interest in sparing the lives aboard a surrendered vessel. There is no prescient sense of motivation in the story, the main character is supposed to be focused on getting the fleet home and spends seemingly dozens of pages dressing down individual captains for not obeying him well enough or failing to live up to his moral standards or whining about not having their acceptance or bemoaning his overwhelming circumstances. When I realized that the author was still writing the series without resolving the current arc, I spared myself any further of his terrible pacing.
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