I picked up this audio book mainly because I failed to watch the new series. (Handily titled just "The Expanse".) I managed to find time to listen to it over a couple of long trips, and it kept me completely entertained throughout.
The plot swings on the discovery on one of the moons of Jupiter of a "proto-molecule", sent to the solar system millennia ago, by an unknown race of precursors. The molecule has the unfortunate side-effect of turning people into vomit zombies, plunging the human empire into all-out war.
The deuteragonists, Holden and Miller, are nicely balanced, setting the idealistic spaceship captain at intense loggerheads with the cynical cop, and the narrative flips between them in a way that keeps any one plotline from ever dragging.
I'm not likely to read the book, so can't tell you how it works in a written form, but the audio version was pretty good. Nothing fancy, just a solid, well-voiced narration.
Highly recommended.
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