I really liked this book. It centers around the star-jellies that we were first introduced in TNG S1E1 at Farpoint station. If you can I would recommend watching that again before you read this.

I felt they did really good exploring modern day political issuea, like gun control and hunting rights, in a way that TNG failed to do as if all human issues were already solved.

There are still too many characters to keep them all straight even 3 books in, and the premise of just how many giant space monsters this area of space has is a little unbelievable preventing this from getting 5 stars.