Status Updates From Engaging the Enemy (Vatta's...

Almost there.
Like with Sheepfarmer's Daughter, it can be quite jarring how often Moon switches pacing and changes out entire cast sections.
It is not that interactions and relations feel shallow or simple, far from it, Moon revels in minute social and cultural arguments.
But it is hard to keep track of entire crews of multiple ships when the story can leave them behind at a moment's notice.

Very glad with how those story threads ended up being resolved and tying back to the larger plot and back to the minute business of space travel again. Love it.

I am in the mood for this again but have been reading it so fragmentedly that it has been hard to really bond with. The focus on escalating manipulation, misunderstandings and social conflict have also been kind of off-putting.
The arguments have valid reasoning, but it all gets very muddy and mogged down and I feel like we've kind of lost track of a larger plot.