Nate, I just finished the 4th book a few days ago. I agree that it was slow in the beginning but I found it picked up at about the midway point and that I couldn't put it down once I got there. Weber really needs a good editor to trim some of the waste that comes about from overcharacterization. Particularly troublesome in this volume is the amount of etailed "thinking" characters seem to do between utterances.
In the end, however, I liked the book and am looking forward to the next one.
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