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Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This is definitely going on the re-read list. Probably on a list of books to buy, which is meaningful considering I’m broke.

I read the book after watching the first episode of the show and fell in love so hard I don’t think I can be impartial about evaluating the books good-ness.

Deep characters, realistic dialogue, deep lore and world building.

A note on the writing of relationships …

It’s the one and only sci fi book I have ever read, written by a man (men?) that had a sex scene WITHOUT bodily objectifying women. Without bodily objectifying anyone. Such a minor plot point, less than two pages, but for me it reframed my expectations of the book. No weird porny misogyny. Just an earnest description of what it means to share intimacy

One aggravating, potential plot hole (hence the half star deduction)

Why the fuck wouldn’t they just crash Eros into the sun as planned? It’s great for the plot to have it land on Venus but it was so out of character and out of dynamic

I’m not mad though, because I would have hated for this to only be one book. But I hope they get their shit together on the next one tbh

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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theblerdnewsletter's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I had this on my TBR for almost 10 years and my partner started it and got me into it. This was a bit slow to start, as most good sci-fi is, but picked up really quickly. The audiobook format is pretty good, with the voice actor doing different voices for each character. I loved it honestly.

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yoursupremereads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

You know how when you read a Crichton novel you felt like you were smart because his books had a way of just laying out the scientific rules of the worlds he created? Well James S. A. Corey has done that but based everything in Leviathan's Wake on actual science. This is an adventure on a galactic scale. Literally.

Humanity is spread over the Milky Way from Earth all the way to the asteroid belt and the consequences of that expanse (ha see what I did there?) of space when it comes to the analysis of this world's political intrigue was awesome. If something was happening in the Belt, because humans have been colonializing asteroid satellites in our galaxy's asteroid belt for generations in this world's timeline, then news about what's happening there would take lots of time to reach other pockets of civilization spread across the galaxy. Add to that a crew of of Belters and Earthers who are set up to solve a mystery regarding a newly discovered alien bioweapon that threatens to throw the galaxy into full out war and you have yourself an modern sci-fi epic that's deeply captivating and arresting.

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mazomazli's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

The premise was super interesting and I enjoyed the mystery aspects. It could’ve been a 4.5 star rating if it weren’t for the constant gross man writing. I was so exhausted from being constantly pulled away from the story to hear about underaged or unlicensed ‘whores’ who were constantly brought up by the detective main character the entire book despite never meeting one of these characters. Both of the main perspective characters were not very likable to me mostly because of how they interacted with women. It was extremely weird. When Holden starts describing how ‘exotic’ Naomi was and breaking down her ethnic background I legit sat there listening to this book going ‘don’t do it don’t do it oh my god stop don’t do that’.

Also

did the authors REALLY have to have cosmic horror coming out of a dead woman’s VULVA?! What was the reason? WHAT WAS IT?

I still really enjoyed the mystery but I will not read any more of these books. I do not want one more chapter in the head of these authors. I will however check out the TV show and maybe it will be less blatant without the narrator going off on unnecessary horny and weird tangents.

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