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I tried Connor's Gambit by Z Gottlieb, but it was a did-not-finish. I should have read the preview before picking this up.
The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken. The universe was interesting and the characters rich and diverse, but it moves fairly slowly while the main protagonist gathers together his crew to pull off an impossible con involving worm-holes and battleships and religious mania and more. I thought the new human subspecies that had been created were intriguing ideas that the author used to good effect both for the story and the themes he built up through it. It was the exploration these themes and extreme character types that took over large parts of the story - which was part of the interest, but not always so compelling. All up I did enjoy this, and there was enough humour in here to help break it up a bit, so rounding up to 4/5.
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