This book is a blast from beginning to end. One of the blurbs on the cover says, “as close as you’ll get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form,” and after reading it, I think that description encapsulates this book perfectly.
Instead of jumping far ahead into the future where humanity is exploring the galaxy and beyond like in Star Trek, the authors wanted to do a story about that in-between period and have humanity still perilously pioneering our own solar system, mirroring a lot of our history when Europeans began to cross the Atlantic.
The book is just fun and nothing complex, but it grabbed me at the beginning and never let go. Featuring interplanetary politics, pirates, ice-freighters, some light-horror elements, a classic “holy fool” character, and a detective pulled straight out of a 1940s film noir, this book is for anyone craving a solid space opera.
Review by Andrew
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.