Leviathan Wakes

I'm angry because the prologue tricked me into thinking this book was going to have a female protagonist, but actually that was the only part of the book from her POV, she was fridged in order to provide motivation for one of the dude protagonists

at some point I said “this book loses a star if Julie ends up murdered” and yep
and then I was like “if Holden ends up with Naomi this book loses another star”

so here we are

tbh I just feel really bad for Julie because she starts the book stuffed in a locker, spends the entire book as Miller's imaginary friend (so female and nurturing and compassionate and understanding!) and then ends up stuck with him FOR EVER in weird ass alien goo mind meld situation

it had some interesting ideas in it but it's such a super generic space opera, with so much DUDES SHOOTING THINGS and NEEDLESS VIOLENCE and DUDES HAVING A FEELING BETTER SHOOT THINGS and like every character making a needless sexual comment about Naomi honestly it was super tiresome and masculinity is boring