You know it's a bad read when you can guess the next lines of what a character is going to say. I have to say, I've read fan fiction that's been alot better than the writing in this book. So why would Vaugn have this ship and why would he be allowed to keep the ship? You don't learn anything about the ship until the end and you really don't see how it plays any point in being in the book except for to serve as a deus ex machina. Ever wonder why Section 31 would allow anything to be stolen from them? I mean, taking my information I know from the series, it would appear that even if it looked like the protagonist was ahead of Section 31, the ending still revealed that he was still a step or two behind. There is also the idea that Vaugn would have a secretly hidden ship that he so happened to steal from Section 31. There is very little mention of Ro's reluctance to go to Sindorin and there really should have been an emphasis on this fact in order for the reader to thoroughly believe that the Ingavi race was more than a mcguffin used by the authors when they needed something to fall back on.

While the Ingavi are an interesting and somewhat well developed race, they are used only as a foil to help speed along the plot. Ro Laren, while nicely written, is thrust into a horrible plot device used to make the story go faster. Kira and Shul, most scenes between Dax and Bashir, and even ones between Vaugn and PrynnMei.) Nothing in this book is subtle, at all. Interactions from certain characters are highly over-characterized (i.e. While I concede that the plot line for this story is good, it's not entirely well thought out and the writing is very blatant and a trifle forced.

Abyss by David Weddle