I just found it a mess, really. A host if unlikeable characters in a universe where things only seem to exist for plot convenience rather than making a coherent background. The main character has no real agency, just rolling from crisis to crisis while people explain the plot to her (well, whatever the plot is at that time, it changes without rhyme or reason) and the most interesting events seem to have happened in the background. No idea why this ended up in a Masterworks collection.