Leviathan Falls

the perfect strawberry on top for the best tres leches series I've ever read. 

The series builds recurringly on earlier episodes, every time widening the social and political scale, inventing a future while commenting on the present day by presenting various social and political structures on a galactic scale that occur on a country-level scale in the present day. At the same time, it explores it from the perspective of the various crew members and other main characters, and explores those characters in the various contexts. A complex and worthwhile series. Will read again. I watched the TV series first. Also good.

Possibly one of the best, most satisfying conclusion to a space opera I’ve ever read. One of a king extraordinary and simply outstanding.

It's impossible to review this book on its own as it is the culmination of all the novels and novellas before it.

It's also a very rare thing, to have a series end and end well. No, all the loose ends aren't tied up, but they aren't in life, either. It's all a little messy but in a way that is very human. People make choices that you want to shake them for, and others make you sigh and shrug your shoulders, but nothing feels out of character. Nothing is swerving into the realm of "who is this person?"

Sure, a few complaints. I would have liked to have seen some previous characters get some time in this book, as they were important before, but again, as I said before, what you get from life is messy and imperfect and it's my curiousity that's driving that more than feeling that …