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Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
3.0

This book took me over five months to read because I got really angry in the middle and set it down for two months. I likely won't have finished it except that my reading buddy finished it and told me it was worth it. I did mostly enjoy it in the end, but would be unlikely to recommend it, in protest over the bad treatment of the only two female characters.

The setting was my favorite part. Corey did a fantastic job of developing slang and cultural norms for a solar system in which humans have colonized every rock and hollowed out moon. The main character, Miller, is a cop born and raised on Ceres. His life spins out of control when a missing persons case takes him to Eros and the site of the worst bio-terrorist act in human history.