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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

James S.A. Corey

Start date: July 1, 2012

Finish date: July 31, 2012

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Aug 28, 2014 Chadwick rated it liked it

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Meh. Very much meh. A fairly interesting future, peopled by tissue-thin stock characters, whipping about the outer solar system at the whim of the most ludicrous coincidences imaginable. I wouldn't have minded so much, but the character development is so poorly executed that it gives me a bit of a headache. ...more

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Jun 08, 2013 travelgirlut rated it really liked it

Re-read 2021: I remember loving this book the first time around, so I was a bit surprised to come back and read my old review. I was all set to write a new review about how it wasn't as good this time around and so on and so forth, but I think I'd still rate it the same, 3.5 rounded up for good measure. And this might seem blasphemous, but I may almost like the TV series even better. The visuals in it are much better than what my pitiful brain can come up with while reading. But between them bot ...more

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Jan 10, 2016 Serena rated it really liked it

This was an excellent horror/noir/space opera; generation spaceship also included! I like imagining how the two people who make up James S.A. Corey wrote this book (Trading chapters? LARP?) and how they do interviews--some sort of shadowing drama exercise where they say the exact same word at the same time probably.
A good quote about George R.R. Martin: "He was very complimentary. He said at one point that it was the best book about vomit zombies he'd ever read. That was nice." ...more

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