It’s been about 18 months since the events of Leviathan
Wakes, James Holden and his crew of the Rocinante are now working full time for
OPA in their hijacked military ship. Meanwhile, the protomolecule –a morphogenesis
type entity that was the start of the war that breaks out between Earth, Mars
and the ‘Belters- has been plunged into Venus my Detective Miller in hopes of
stopping it. Launched millions of years ago from some unknown part of space,
the protomolecule was supposed to wipe out Earth, but Venus now becomes the
host for whatever the thing truly is.
Meanwhile, as tension escalates between the three powers,
Holden and his crew get drawn into a search for a missing child on the moon
Ganymede, which is in the middle of a war. But something happened on Ganymede, beyond
the skirmish between Belters and Martian Marines. A monster of unbelievable strength
has been left loose there, a monster that seems connected to Venus.
But as one Earth Admiral tries to piece together those
events with previous ones, it becomes clear to Holden and crew that someone is trying to reverse engineer the protomolecule and turn into something even more horrible than it already is and at
the center of it all is one little girl.
While the authors continues the believable human personalities
traits and keeps the technology in the realm of reality, they do stumble a bit with some cartoonish villains and off the wall silly politics. And like the first book, the authors bounce back between characters, giving us the readers a unique way for the story to unfold -though at times I felt some growth came due to the story beats and not necessarily organically. But it's still a fun book.
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