I enjoy works that explore other sentient species. It is unfortunate that most aliens are limited by the author's creativity (no way around that *grin*), but you get some interesting inventions. Karen's multi-species, universe-spanning, gamut-running story does a good job of painting a civilization that is technologically superior, the Wess'har. I found it strange that they focus on "balancing" things, making sure one life-form does not wipe out lots of others (including lower forms of life); for an alien superpower billions of miles away, they sounded a bit too American.
But I liked it overall; I enjoyed the varieties of species that are introduced and how they interact. I did not really care for the parasite that was obviously introduced in an earlier book. A parasite that makes its host nearly immortal by repairing the host from any sort of damage and equiping it for any sort of environment, in mere seconds. Come on.
I may go back and read one of her earlier books. The one prior, Matriarch, may be good for getting some background and the center-stage women. We will see.
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