Right now, this book is sitting at a rating of 4.17 with around 1600 reviews and i'm sorry to say that i can't fathom how that even happened. I picked it up because of the tagline putting it in between the Expanse and BSG. But I found a mil sci-fi book that's got a potpourri of tropes that is way closer to Gladstone's Empress of Forever than BSG/the expanse. The zombie-virus and the literal space Nazis were especially jarring. The latter don't get any nuance at all and all they function as is as a mix mildly incompetent (when it comes to being competent) and wildly effective (when it comes to elevating our protagonists) villains that just want to cleanse the gene-pool. For whatever reason. Other issues I had were with the ending (which felt unearned, rushed, and not really engaging) and the world-building, which was unsatisfying and relied too much on tropes ... again (space nobles and monarchies, indentured servitude, literal slaves, corporate overlords/megacorps, dynasties etc. how the latter are even compatible with the former never gets touched on), so that the whole thing didn't really feel like a believable universe in the end. Quite disappointing.