Justice was a unique book, for sure. I don't think there could be any follow-on book that could duplicate that intensity and single-mindedness. Which is not to say that the books that do follow are the only ones that could have, of course...

I liked the way the civil war was handled because the implication is that there will end up being many different resolutions in different parts of Radchaai space, rather than one overarching resolution, and that seemed both like a plausible historical outcome and consonant with the series' politics.