Genuinely enjoyed reading this and will definitely read the other books in the Expanse series. It's like a mash of Firefly and Battlestar Galactica - in book form. I love that it covers humanity's initial expansion within the solar system - instead of spanning galaxies and galactic empires - the galaxies-wide view can be too abstract to identify with and can make the players in the story seem insignificant. 
 When I first saw the summaries for this book, I thought 'hmm no...not my cup of tea' because it belongs to the following genres which I'm not that much into: 
 Space opera 
 Detective noir 
 Sci-fi 
 But I read it despite myself and I'm glad I did. 
 I love sci-fi because of the possibilities of the future - the actual 'science fiction' part - but find most sci-fi really hard to get into because of the usually terrible or shallow characterisations. This book contains the best of both worlds.