The Raven Stratagem is really starting to frustrate me. It's clearly a choice to convey almost all of the events in the book through significant conversations, so we're getting a layered perception of what's going on, but I'm three quarters of the way through and it's not coming together. It's also missing most of the weirdness that made Ninefox Gambit stand out, though there are flashes of it, like the "geese".