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Caliban's War - by James S.A. Corey - is the second novel in The Expanse series that followed Leviathan Wakes. As the story starts, Venus has been taken over by the protomolecule, which is building something all over the surface. And soon enough Ganymede is in crisis and Earth and Mars are shooting at each other. There a number of parallels to the first book - Earth and Mars are on a on/off war pace, Holden is chasing another girl that is also important to the larger events that are unfolding, a larger outer planets settlement is messed up because of the protomolecule, etc. Still, the pace of the novel made me eager to keep following page after page to see how it went. And it ends in a pretty satisfying conclusion. Recommended. I am already reading the third book in the series...

I really enjoyed this. The overall start of the story is a somewhat common theme - the solar system is colonized (with mostly no magical tech, except maybe for a special fusion drive that is in itself a nice side story), and the powers (Earth, Mars, Belters) are on the edge against each other. Then something happens, and all hell breaks lose. The actual reason why all hell breaks loose is not that common, but really reminds me of Neal Asher 's books. Very good pacing and well kept suspense till the end, recommended.