Shards of Earth

I just devoured this one for a refresher before starting the next two books in the trilogy. Really like AT's world building and how his prose really paints me a picture that looks just like 70's sci-fi mate paintings and book covers.

and as always this book features invertebrates as a plot point like so many of his stories!

....and multi-party conflicts, world ending crisis, class and gender politics, revolutions, the occult and cults, and other standards of good sci-fi in my opinion.

Nice.
This is Tchaikovsky going a little more traditional space opera with an all action story of enigmatic, overpowering Alien apocalypse. This one had its bones in the Revenger trilogy and strangely, Mass Effect 3.
The usual motley crew dynamic is given a fresh spin and these characters are engaging and things don't exactly go as you think they might with them. There is still a little room for Tchaikovsky's signature zoological weirdness as well.
Recommended and I will be buying these as they come out.