Reading on the right day

Currently reading: Caliban's War by the people who write the Expanse books. I have seen the show all the way through probably four times now, but this is the first time I've picked up one of the books. So far it's really, really good! I know this is the second book in the series but I started with it because (a) there was a copy in the used bookstore and (b) I have heard that the first one doesn't have Avasarala in it, and there's only so much time in the world for books that could have Avasarala in them but don't. In any case I don't have a problem figuring out what happened, although I get the sense that the protomolecure-related worldbuilding is much more detailed in the books than it was in the show. But it's a fictional universe I really love, and I'm very happy to be getting more if it. I don't know why I never thought of reading these books before, really.