It's been a long time since the last time I stayed up until 3am to finish a book (but to be fair, I think I've got that ADHD meds insomnia).

I was very excited when I realized that James SA Corey has started a new series; The Expanse had very quickly risen up to my favourite sci fi series, and this book has a lot of the same things I enjoyed from it: casual queerness baked naturally into the world's setting, and found family (though this is still the first book, and the family needs a but more finding. I'm excited to see it happen though, and I trust Corey to make it satisfying once it does).  

There weren't any real twists in this book. Rather, what it had was a gradual peeling back of layers to eventually reveal pieces of the puzzle. That's a clumsy metaphor, but it's the one I'm going with so bite me. Every time I stumbled onto a reveal that made another bit of the story make a new kind of sense, I got very excited. 

I read half the book physically, and listened to the other half on audiobook. This has the same audiobook narrator as The Expanse books, and while I have some issues with him (namely that he doesn't really distinguish between character voices, so it can be hard to figure out who's speaking during dialogue, or to know when one person has finished speaking and the next has begun), it felt like coming home and being wrapped in a warm blanket. 

Overall, I'm very excited for the next book, and hope I don't need to wait too long for it.