Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)

by James S.A. Corey

“What kind of half-assed apocalypse are they running down there?” Amos said. “Give ’em a break. It’s their first.”

Honestly, this is one of our favorites too. It feels like watching a 24-hour news service. It’s important to have humor in the books, but most – of not all – from the characters, not the narrator. There’s so much horror in the books that having the characters be dour would have sunk them. There’s an interesting conversation about how humor works in the books as opposed to the show, and why the media are different that way.