I like Holden and Naomi the best, but to be honest all the characters began to grate on my nerves by the end of the book. These five come from Earth, Mars, and the Belt which lends them a diverse and gives the reader some inside social and political knowledge that would have otherwise been thrown at us in an info-dump manner. James Holden, his crewmates Naomi, Alex, and Amos, and the police detective Miller are a diverse bunch. From this point onwards, the story becomes exceedingly complex and somewhat perturbing and introduces many other characters. The Canterbury is where we will find James Holden, an Earther and one of the central cogs in this machine of a story. The distress signal sent out from the Scopuli is responded to by an ice hauler called the Canterbury. All except Julie, who is stuffed into a locker. A vessel called the Scopuli is boarded by a stealth ship with no apparent affiliation and the crew captured and killed. It’s a little bit of a crime novel, political thriller, and space opera, with no single element taking the forefront. Leviathan Wakes is a story of political intrigue, biological warfare, corruption, and spaceships. It gave me twenty-some-odd hours of entertainment at work, so that was pretty great. I listened to the audio version of this because I am literally at the point where I’m having trouble fitting in actual reading of books that weren’t sent to me for review. This seemed to be almost a must-read science fiction series and it was even made into a television series (The Expanse on SyFy), so I figured that I must be missing out on something. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.Īfter procrastinating and pondering for months, I finally decided to try out Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations – and the odds are against them. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.ĭetective Miller is looking for a girl. A secret that someone is willing to kill for – and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt.

Humanity has colonized the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond – but the stars are still out of our reach.

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