If you absolutely cannot let go of space combat that makes zero real-world physical sense, then pass, there's nothing that will make you enjoy the book. If you're willing to suspend that much disbelief, you'll enjoy it. Walker also writes well choreographed fight scenes, if you're willing to accept "anime physics" and an outright shift to naval combat terminology.
With that said, the story is absolutely dripping with tropes, but they work because they're not presented in an ironic or subversive fashion, but played absolutely straight - IF there was subversion in play, it would have fallen flat and gone from trope to cliche.
The melodrama is thick, but in context of the kind of story presented, it fits. Walker manages a deft combination of American pulp and 1970's / early '80s era giant robot anime in a setting that would feel at home in even earlier fantasy, say late 19th century, that in itself is remarkable.
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