Like the rest of this series, this book turned out fabulous. I continue to agree with the tenant that The Exapanse is to Science Fiction Lit what The Song of Ice and Fire is the Fantasy. Though this series does have one thing going for it that those books usually don't (which is probably the only contrast I'll tell about between them, as I love every sentence of SOIAF the same way with this) is that these novels are self-contained, meaning you could pick them up anywhere and still get a full story with each open and close.

I could not stop flailing about the awesome of getting to be in the crew's heads this time. Every single character got a whole plethora of screen time as plots diverged for the book and then remerged for the ending (which was, admittedly, a little too fast, given it and everyone all came together in less than 5-10% of the book's ending). But I was so happy with being inside every single characters head. Seeing how different there are, how far they've come and changed in becoming the Roci's Unit, and how much they need each other -- all of these things expressed so completely differently/uniquely but all coming back to the same truths.

The main plot was good as always, but I never felt truly gripped with an inability to read enough (perhaps, because I did read from 15% to the end in one very slow, leisurely evening), but I was very satisfied with it. The plot. The guest appearances. The things that have been left unanswered/unsolved. (I think the only thing that made me sad in my 1% sadness place was the lack of Miller or the proto-Miller. But given the end, who knows, we may be seeing him again in the future, and that makes me happy.)

OH. Which means I have to point out how often I laughed and smiled like a loon everytime Holden said, "Doors and Corners."