There were some odd choices for new characters. The large amounts of religious stuff seemed out of place to me. The Mormon's millennial ship made sense, but the large amount of religious people (especially among the OPA) seems out of place. If Clarissa goes on a redemption arc, or really if anything happens to her other than a trial and execution/imprisonment I'm going to be upset. Unfortunately it seems like the books are heading that way because they constantly mention her guilt over killing Ren, and then gloss over the fact she blew up an entire ship's worth of people.


The book seems like it was rushed to get out. There were several misspellings in my edition, and also it seemed like the authors changed their mind about the power of the station or whatever. There were several mentions of how guns would not work where they were. This was a huge plot point for a long time and then all of a sudden Serge gets shot in the face and there's constant fire fights.


There were a lot of times when I said "Oh no please don't do that..." and it then it happened every time.

Rocinante escaping the missile by going into the ring. The pacifist preacher venturing into space, and then attacking (and besting) a trained killer... etc etc. A bunch of cliche and far fetched plot points.