After enjoying the first two installments of the Expanse Series I could not wait to get my hands on the third. But lo! What a disappointment! While the start felt just as I expected (judging its predecessors), it soon wound down and almost came to a stop right in the middle of the "Slow Zone" (pun intended). From time to time I enjoyed some spikes - story and plotwise - but all in all this book is a disappointment. The promising role of Miller stays shallow and the most interesting concepts of the main artifact are left unexplored. At the end there is lots of fighting and (Constructed) action, but for long passages it all feels somewhat different / disconnected from the way the story which presented in The First Two Books.