Lord Hydronium posted:

When I first read it, I didn't care much for the back half of LW. The first half is a hardish sci-fi neo-noir conspiracy thriller, and then the back half becomes about fighting nasty aliens. At the time, that was disappointing, as it felt like all the interesting political and social stuff was being set aside for a more stock sci-fi plotline. Of course, in retrospect the series never really abandons the political and social aspects, and eventually comes back to them in a big way in the recent books, so rereading it I enjoyed it a lot more.