Reviews with content warning for Murder - Przebudzenie Lewiatana

I can tell that this book is good for what it is. Unfortunately what it is just isn't for me. If you like scifi I strongly urge you to give this one a go, it's just not my typical genre so I didn't have a great time.

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adventurous dark 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

5.0

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ekcd_'s review against another edition

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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 dark lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Leviathan Wakes - The Expanse Book One by James SA Corey

5/5 loved every moment.

Sci-fi has been a massive part of my life for as long as I can remember. So far, The Expanse is seeming like the perfect compilation of all the the best parts of science fiction - and there’s just enough real-world physics to keep me from nearly screaming every time I turn a page because there’s no possible way what’s happening is feasible under the conditions.

I have a love hate relationship with multi-pov books bc I always find I like one character way more than the other, and only really enjoy their chapters, but I think it’s used really well here. It’s third person closed (focused on a specific character’s experiences and only uses info that character has at the time) and alternates focus between the two main characters each chapter. I found the split-focus did a really good job setting up the novel, as I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of world I was going into. It worked with one characters story line setting up the politics of it all, and the other the action, until they met up in the middle - at the same point those two parts of the story collided

- a war broke out.

It also worked to really build the conflict between the characters throughout the story - both “good guys” but with very different ideals and opinions about humanity’s nature - and gave the relationship much more depth and meaning.

Unless I’m going to be incredibly nit-picky and pull out specific sentence structure I would have changed - I have not one complaint.

I’ve started the series on recommendation by my English teacher, and it’s actually kinda surprising that he got my style perfectly right based of just a couple conversations about specific books and teaching me.

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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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adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

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rcholst's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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