Also the fact that the crewmembers hijack a freighter and know exactly how to fly it was a bit strange.

I really don’t know where you are getting the whole sexism thing from. There were plenty of female characters that were portrayed well enough. Just remember that it is a book written by two guys, and the story is written as such. I highly doubt there was any intentional messages against women.

The characters weren’t that interesting, Holden was alright, and so was the Detective guy, but the other characters were kind of just cookie-cutter space opera characters.

I quite liked the setting though. Having a space opera that loses no sense of scale despite being set in our own solar system was pretty cool.

Anyway, it was an entertaining read, and I would recommend it. I’ll definitely be reading Caliban’s War.

(Also I think this book was nominated for the Hugo award. Not sure if it deserves praise that high, but it was a pretty good book)