I actually read (or listened to) the two BHR books concurrently. But, to be honest, I think I need to get back into the pacing of audiobooks as I think I’m half tuning out as I listened to them.
Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Technically, I might be able to learn something from this for my WIP but practically, that’s not the case. The alternating chapters in Holden and Miller’s point of view is for two parallel plot lines with events happening at the same time and that’s just not how my WIP is structured at the moment. And I’ve seen the alternating chapter structure before from other novels but I don’t see a reason to apply it to my WIP.
Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Besides the hook of ‘to find out… turn to the next chapter’ in book 1 (and I doubt I can apply this to my own work), I’m not really connecting to this novel so… It reminds me of the Cloud Atlas in that it is a novel told via loosely connected short stories but I prefer the Cloud Atlas.
Moonlake's Fiction Space 