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It's good to be back in the 'ol Ring of Fire. I've kind of gotten out of rereading the series (its hard, knowing that we're probably not getting a proper conclusion), but still such a fun premise and with so many delightful stories and characters, and Jody Nye's entry has been a great addition so far.

You thought Wiznik was the real villain, but it was me, DIO!

Well, I got past the villain gloating chapter, took long enough (272 DAYS!), but I really dislike Wiznik, but not in a "you have to pay for your sins!" way just in a "why is it this pathetic hypocritical crab can just snap his pincers and get the galaxy to do what he wants it to do?" He's just an opportunistic ambitious amoral cowardly jerk. He's literally the worst villain Sanderson ever wrote.

It's funny how the Confederation's technological superiority over the Alliance becomes completely irrelevant whenever it makes the story more dramatic. Longer range/more powerful main battery? Well... the enemy ships just shrug off the hits... somehow. Better fighters? Well... the Alliance pilots are experienced and motivated, so... it doesn't matter. Sigh...

I'm so sick of the stupid vengeance subplot. You don't deserve to have a vengeance story when (putting it in less space opera-ish terms) your friend treacherously breaks into the house next door and tries to murder and enslave the neighbors (who've never done you any wrong) and gets killed by the people defending the house. It's just dumb.

If I had a quarter for every time Allan mixes up Alliance and Confederation...