Leviathan Wakes

Book 1 of the Expanse , #1

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10th Anniversary Edition, 576 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2021 by Little, Brown Book Group.

ISBN:
978-0-316-33342-9
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Humanity has colonised the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.

Jim Holden is an officer on an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew discover a derelict ship called the Scopuli, they suddenly find themselves in possession of a deadly secret. A secret that someone is willing to kill for, and on an unimaginable scale. War is coming to the system, unless Jim can find out who abandoned the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money - and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and Holden, they both realise this girl may hold the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread …

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reviewed L'Éveil du Léviathan by James S.A. Corey

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Encore sous le choc d’Hypérion, et en début de manque, j’ai finalement jeté mon dévolu sur ce début de série proposé par Actes Sud qui traînait dans ma PAL depuis un temps certain.

L’argument « “un Game of Thrones dans l’espace” ne m’a pas du tout interpellée : il m’en faut plus pour me convaincre, mais la promesse de noirceur et le fait d’avoir récemment succombé au genre (du moins au travers d’Hypérion) me laissait entrevoir bien des merveilles.
[La suite sur mon blog, merci :)]

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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Quite enjoyable read.
But. The authors seem hell bent on fulfilling the old sci-fi/fantasy cliche that everyone constantly frowns. They're all frowning together, he said frowningly with a frown to Detective Frownsen.


(And now for something completely different: I'm starting a little fan fiction series called "The Frownse".)

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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I enjoyed reading this book. The characters were interesting, if a little male dominated. The pacing of the story was so that I read it without too many breaks. The world is exciting.

There is just one thing I have to critique: the title kind of spoils the whole plot. But then this is something that happens and it was surely done on purpose. But all in all there were not many surprising turns in the book for me. Curiously, I usually dislike surprises but here I missed them a little. Not enough however to detract from my overall enjoyment of the story. I am looking forward to reading the sequel.

I really liked both Miller and Holden, the two protagonists. They are well-rounded characters with deep flaws that drive the plot in good ways.

I always waited for Fred to turn on everyone but he didn't and his moment …

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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I have very mixed feelings about this book. It feels a lot like Firefly with the crew dynamics and the whole frontier western vibe but it lacks the humor and depth of world of the show. About halfway through I feel like the book could have concluded but then we spent most of the rest dwelling of the depressed detectives emotions. I would have preferred more time spent with the proto alien. Odd choices overall.

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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I have mixed feelings about leviathan wakes. The first half was pretty bad. I found it stale and uninteresting and even when people got killed I didn't really care.

The second half was thrilling. Though I don't like it when the author spells out everything and doesn't let me figure out anything by myself.

I do admire the fact that the book has an ending despite being part of the series.

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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Brilliant? No. Derivative? Absolutely. Yet, this novel seems to overcome all of that with a quick pace and a determined narrative drive. The characters are all familiar and likeable, we've seen the plot before, though maybe not in this order, but it is space opera we are interested in after all, and the authors have written a compelling one.

I will probably read the other books in the series, though I might have a hard time recommending them to anyone who isn't already excited about the genre.

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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Really good space opera; similar to Iain M. Banks' stories but closer to our time frame and just inside the solar system. Characters were well-drawn, with a noir-ish detective on an asteroid and the remains of crew that's reminiscent of way-back-when futures.

The ending seems a bit rushed but mostly reasonable to me, but seems to end a little too upbeat for what's happened. Still, the author(s) have a good recipe with a lot of science fiction spiced with a murder mystery and a pinch of horror. I'm definitely moving on to Caliban's War after finishing this one.

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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Interesting ideas woven together in a mid-future near-space opera setting. I think the authors (this is a two-person team writing under a single pseudonym) did a pretty good job with what they had, and it's definitely a fast-paced action book. The story is told from the perspectives of two of the main characters most of the time, alternating between the characters. It's hard to compare it with good, classic sci-fi --- the characters are a little weaker, and there are definitely some cliche moments, which is why I'm inclined to give it a three instead of a four. But overall it did its job, filling several evenings and bits of a few afternoons waiting for other things, and most of the time I was wanting to keep reading even though my time for reading was up.

reviewed Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

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I read this as part of the Sword and Laser book club. Until it was announced as the month's book I hadn't heard of it, so I really had no particular expectations going in. I was pleasantly surprised.

This is a fast moving book where humanity has managed to colonize parts of the solar system. But they're still very much tethered to Earth. Technology and science are background elements for this book. They serve the plot, not the other way round.

We are presented with two viewpoint characters: Jim Holden, the rather naive and reckless XO of an ice mining ship and Detective Miller a policeman on a space station with a very realpolitik viewpoint. Over the course of the book their two stories merge into one as a larger plot develops. The two characters and their conflicting moral views drive the story forward.

I particularly enjoyed the first half …

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