Michael Sands’s Reviews > The Dregs of Empire > Status Update

As enjoyable as this is, I cant help but feel like Ruocchio routinely misses the mark on making the weaknesses believable for the ruling powers that are exploited for the plot. I have 0 belief that a criminal society could just exist on a snowy planet occupied by the empire and not just be scorched from orbit. Worse still when they poke the bear, taking down shuttles/raiding, and still have no response to scale.

Enjoying this audiobook/novella more than expected. Scrappy fellow.