Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

12 reviews

swordrager's review

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dark sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


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rattledragons's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.75


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remescient's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

This series is so good. Honestly the first book isn't even the best one, but it's still so good. 

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carter1315's review

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25


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bookswithbethx's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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iono's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-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

5.0


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ekcd_'s review

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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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amandabcook's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious 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? Yes

4.0


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futureofmydays's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

4.75


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s_p_a_r_k_s's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I'm not exaggerating when I say this is some of the best science fiction ever written. The worldbuilding is probably the best in sci-fi, bar none. There's mystery and political intrigue and space battles galore. And while both viewpoint characters in this book are straight white men, the rest of the cast is extremely diverse, and more diverse viewpoint characters are brought in as the series continues. Really, the only weakness is that the characters, while instantly lovable, are a little cliched in this installment. (Fortunately, the writers get better about this in future books, adding nuance and complexity to create some of my favorite characters in all of sci-fi.) Even so, it's easy to fall in love with the space family the main characters build, even as you're tearing through the pages to figure out what in the universe is going on -- and the answer to the mystery only makes things even crazier! Cannot recommend enough!

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