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Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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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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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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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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