Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8)

by James S.A. Corey

That’s the thing about autocracy. It looks pretty decent while it still looks pretty decent. Survivable, anyway. And it keeps looking like that right up until it doesn’t. That’s how you find out it’s too late.

There were so many last times that passed unrecognized. Knowing in the moment what was ending and wouldn’t come again was precious.