(I absolutely despise introductory chapters that try to take a 600 page book and condense it down to five or six pages of catch-up content. Yes, there are discussions that briefly mention certain events from Leviathan Wakes in this story between a handful of major and minor characters, but the authors have avoided doing one of my least favorite things when it comes to book series, and that's summarizing or using weak dialogue early in a follow-up book to tell what should most obviously be told in the earlier books. Please note: If you haven't read Leviathan Wakes (LW), then the second book, Caliban's War (CW), is definitely not the place to start. Corey (the pen name for co-authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), the story was a 600-page world-building opener that set a stage where humans have moved out into the solar system, set up homes and workplaces among the asteroid belts and various moons of Jupiter, and established a fragile government of sorts that is still not completely recognized by the ruling bodies of Earth and Mars.

Eight months ago I read and reviewed the first book in The Expanse Trilogy, Leviathan Wakes.

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