Caliban's War

Loved loved loved this one, even more than I did the first. It's quite different tonally from the first - I think the most apt comparison would be to think about the changes in the first two movies of the Alien film series. Despite those differences, it still keeps the intriguing storyline of the protomolecule, the interplanetary politics get deeper and more interesting, and the newly introduced characters are fun and exciting.

What I thought was interesting about this, as well, was that the point of view characters are all connected by recent experiences of trauma, and their attempts to deal with and overcome that trauma. Reactions to post-traumatic stress is a topic that rarely gets mentioned in the sci-fi realm, especially when looking at episodic/series-based fiction, and it was nice to read a novel that took a realistic and humanistic approach towards it.