On a Red Station, Drifting
by Aliette de Bodard
Wish this wasn't one of the books Overdrive mysteriously refuses to load to my ereader, reading on phone is painful. May be part of the reason I had some trouble following this - not so much the number of characters or their names, but I kept getting confused about the relative ages of everyone involved. Characters also seriously misjudge each other, which is great at showing the conflict between the two main women and their strong feelings of justification, but gets weird with HH, especially his last turn in the book - it doesn't hang together with either L's or Q's experiences of him. Although maybe that's the point, they also both misjudged HH and what motivates him??