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Currently, Leviathan Falls, the last book in The Expanse series. I'm a little over halfway through. Which is a little bittersweet, since I've loved this series for a long time now, and I want to know how it ends... but also kinda don't want it to end.
Not sure what'll be next up, but probably one of Babel, The Kaiju Preservation Society, or The House in the Cerulean Sea, depending on my mood.
How exciting! I'm currently reading Caliban's War. I got real busy with school when I was reading it last and ended up setting it down instead of finishing.
Question for you - did you see the TV show before reading the books like me? I'm having a really hard time reconciling my mental picture of both Amos and Fred Johnson from the show and how they're portrayed in the books. The TV show made Amos a certified badass, and he was my favorite character for it. In the books (so far) he's just a stubborn badass mechanic. And visa versa, Fred Johnson is badass war hero in the books, and just kind of 'meh' in the TV show...
I was already a fan of the book series before the show came out - I forget how many of the books were out at that point, but I'd definitely read the first three at least.
So I came at it the other way around, especially with Amos. I remember when Wes Chatham was first announced as Amos, and I thought he looked entirely wrong for the role. But he completely blew me away with his portrayal. He brought so much depth and nuance to Amos, and made me utterly fall in love with a character that I'd previously been kind of 'meh' about. Wes is now my definitive Amos, and I just kind of mentally gloss over the book descriptions that contradict that. He's my favourite character now, though Camina Drummer (the show version) comes a very close second.
I didn't have the same trouble with Fred Johnson though. Neither version was a favourite or 'meh' for me.