Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars)

Having enjoyed Kloos' last outing (The Frontline Series), I picked this up expecting a similar experience. The structure is different, but not unpleasantly so, working with multiple POV characters, instead of the single-stream POV of the previous series.

The book itself (well, audiobook) flew past, drawing me into the universe and doing a nice job of letting you get to know the characters.

The content is balanced nicely between action and character beats, and paced so that I never felt it dragged.

Definitely hooked me, and I'm diving into the next one.

The word that springs to mind is, workmanlike.
Kloos is quoted as being one of the stars of Mil SF so I decided to give this a whirl. It was distinctly average, almost painting by numbers.
Don't get me wrong, there are some good sequences here. Which is why it gets a 3 star from me, a rating I rarely give. I either like something or hate it, generally. Thus a 3 is a review score equivalent of a shrug from me.
I found the structure of this all over the map, it doesn't pull together to a cohesive whole for book and is too busy setting up the series to come to care.
In summary, not recommended and I won't be following up with the series.