Leviathan Wakes
by James S.A. Corey
Book review by Ken Parker
Humanity has colonized the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond - but the stars are still out of our reach.
Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, The Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for - and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left 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 rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.
Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations - and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.
I wanted to read a novel that
took place in outer space. My last few books were Earth based and so
it was time for spaceships, asteroids and possibly some aliens.
Leviathan Awakes fit that description fairly well and reminded me of
many other types of Sci-Fi adventures like Babylon 5 and Battlestar
Galactica. We basically have two men who are on different missions
but wind up working together to save mankind. The trip there is
pretty fascinating. The characters, Miller and Holden take turn as
the primary character of each chapter. The difference between the
two men is well explored and really works well to balance the novel.
At no time did I feel bored with one story or the other and when the
two come together, the different perspectives is well executed.
