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Continued the pluses and minuses of the first book, in no particular order:

-Truly excellent, innovative world-building
-Terrific, memorable characters
-Irritating narrative voice
-Bizarre fixation on gender and sex
-Ludicrous juxtaposition of simultaneously god-like and sex-crazed world leaders
-Most action occurs through dialogue

Overall, I think this and the 3-star first one could have been condensed into a 5-star single volume.

I'll probably finish the series, but I'm less excited about it now than I was after finishing the first one.