The first couple of chapters was quite hard to get through (took me months).

I’m a person who read series because I like the characters in them. The Expanse series tends to start each book with new characters, new worlds, build the scenario and then bring the old characters into it.
For me this means I need to sludge through chapters about people and situations I don’t care about - and it’s not enjoyable for me.

Luckily the story does pick up again when Holden enters the scene and I was able to power through it quite quickly after that.

To be completely honest, this book was the least interesting one out of all the books in this series so far. I don’t know why but the new planet felt kind of bland to me and the characters annoyed me. It seemed that there was an overwhelming need by everyone not to kill dangerous people, and thereby allowing up to put everyone’s lives in danger.

At the risk of it being a spoiler, the epilogue was fantastic and certainly made up for the less than stellar book.