G.K. Hansen’s Reviews > Leviathan Wakes > Status Update

book is definitely improving; still contains a fifty year old man fixated on an eighteen or nineteen year old girl tho, so

Spoilery update: apparent death of only actual female character currently being used to further men; i.e., she's been fridged. I skipped ahead out of rage and it appears to be temporary (possibly staged) but that doesn't actually get the author out of having used the trope.

It's not that this is a bad book, it's just that the only female character who there's any focus on hasn't been heard from since page 6, they're in space with massive physiological differences and totally new political structures and yet somehow binary gender is still Super Important And Identical, and a native Belter is fixated on how the coffee he's been drinking since literal birth isn't as "real" as Earth Coffee.