LEVIATHAN WAKES by James S.A. Corey

Narrated by Jefferson Mays

     A whale of a space opera tale

This is a juggernaut of a novel. It jumps right in with a shot heard around the Earth-Mars-Belt system and then expands with an intriguing infusion of alien bio-tech. In between Corey manages to work in healthy doses of Mars’ cultural extrapolation with a washed out cop seeking redemption story. Here is a book burgeoning with Science Fiction ideas and enough potential to give assurances that the sequels will be equally imaginative. This is one for the Space Opera connoisseur.

Jefferson Mays is clear and steady with occasional forays into character voices. I would have liked a more dramatic performance, but Mays does manage to fade into the background allowing the listener full access to the text just like a reader might experience.