Leviathan Wakes

This is a long, complex, exciting story written with some skill and a good deal of work. It kept me interested.

On the other hand, it's also a thoroughly depressing experience, and I don't read fiction because I want to be depressed. I don't hate it enough to give it one star, so I'll give it two.

This novel is a tale of endless misery, people suffering in numerous ways, having bad lives, being attacked, being killed quickly or slowly, and even in some cases being transformed into half-alien monsters. That's how it starts, right from the first page, and that's how it goes on. This first novel is followed by a whole string of sequels, and I presume they go on depressing readers indefinitely. But I stop here.