Abaddon's Gate

This series continues to be fantastic. With each book, Corey establishes what feels like a new status quo for the crew of the Rocinante, and then smashes it completely to hell. This results in a string of novels that feel like a cohesive whole, while each one also has a unique flavour to it. It's hard to pull off, but it's done well here.

In this novel, our characters venture out of the solar system for the first time - and given that the book is named after a demon known as “the destroyer”, one can imagine how well it goes. What's fascinating about it, though, is that most of the catastrophe in the novel comes from people acting like Holden - while Holden, at the same time, starts to realize that his habit of jumping in to situations without looking isn't always the wisest course.

Abaddon's Gate ends the first act of The Expanse, and does so in a fascinating way. It will be interesting to see where the next act goes from here.