How about the “Dresden Files” series by Jim Butcher?
J.
Bujold writes too slow too. Dangit.
Yeah ya got me on a nitpick with the sollies , but Id honestly have to go back and see if their designation is the SDF or solarian defense forces, I used Terran Federated Navy , simply cause I forgot and that one normally tends to end up in a few of his series.
Hamish may be the first space lord ,but he is also Honors love interest at the moment and those scenes tend to drag out the books in my opinion. Like her last love interest Paul Tankersly , its just a matter of waiting for the axe to drop.
As to the last , its a matter of speculation as to who will be the next opponent. Mesa certainly has it coming , but in regard to the sollies , it may simply be an element of the solarian fleet that gets drawn into combat.
But thats what he does so well.
Declan
And no longer seems to writing about Miles 
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Eh, I think that after the resolution in the last book, that won’t need to take up too much space. I predict a chapter on the Grayson reaction after the news gets out, and maybe a half-dozen paragraphs scattered through the rest of the book.
There is going to be at least one more Miles book, though last I heard she didn’t know yet when it was going to be set, chronologically. I know a lot of people have been asking for more Ivan.
StG
It’s not often a single sentence gets me as interested in a story as this one did. I’ll have to check those books out soon.