This was a really solid tale of rescue, care and recovery. A very different beast from the first book in this sequence with very few overlapping characters.
The common thread is the worldbuilding. There is a touch of anthromorphisation in the aliens but that is a necessary evil to story telling, I suppose. The society envisioned here is, at first glance, a utopia but this is a tale of the ragged edges of it. Corruption at the heart of the biggest multispecies hospital in the galaxy is the plot engine but the interest in the tale is how it is exposed and how it is dealt with.
Recommended.