Putting the conclusion up front, there are good and bad parts to most everything about this book. Character development is inconsistent. Some characters grow, some don’t, some get background to explain their actions, some don’t. Story hops around, unsure of itself. Even the title, Leviathan makes no sense when the “enemy” has ships of the same size or better. It also cheaps out on attention to humanity. Who adapts to a miles long ship, that reads minds no less, in a matter of hours? But we get detailed explanations of needle guns and “planet killers”. Really? Author can’t even keep a military command structure consistent. On the plus side, there IS some interesting character development. There’s even a hint at interesting technology even though physics is largely ignored. (Sorry, you don’t fire any projectile weapon in zero g and not fly backward, just doesn’t happen). I wanted to like it. I really did. I even listened to sections repeatedly trying to adjust to the author’s way of doing things but the end result is a regret for the time lost with the listen.