![]() The Free Navy is causing havoc all over the place and has essentially taken over several large belter settlements. The main story involves the aftermath of the events of Nemesis Games, and how those events affect everyone, both inside and outside of the Sol system from here on. This opens up the world even more, something that this series has done so well along the way. We get a perspective from nearly every main and secondary character still living, and some new ones as well. It does feel more like the way that a TV show handles narrative. I really love this change to the structure, and can’t help but think that The Expanse television series influenced it in some way. Holden, Pa, and Filip are the main ones, but we get lots of tertiary views on the action and plot. But if you’ve made it this far, you’re ready for that kind of complexity, you’re already intimately familiar with most of these characters. Instead we’ve got nineteen unique points of view. Gone is the simple narrative structure of the first five books, each - excluding Leviathan Wakes - with four alternating POV characters. ![]() If each novel is a different genre married into the science fiction backdrop, then I’d call Nemesis Games a survival tale, and Babylon’s Ashes a great russian tragedy a la Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy. They are much more deeply intertwined than any of the other sets in the series. Abaddon’s Gate/Cibola Burn deal with the expansion out into deeper space as a ghost story/western, but Nemesis Games/Babylon’s Ashes really read like two halves of the same larger novel. ![]() Leviathan Wakes/Caliban’s War tell a fairly contained story about the protomolecule in the style of noir and political thriller respectively. Corey (Ty Franck and Daniel Abraham) refer to their Expanse series as 3 duologies and a trilogy (forthcoming books 7,8 & 9) to cap it all off. Let me start by saying, if you’re 6 books into an ongoing series like this, than I’m going to assume you’re in it for the long haul, and I think you’ll enjoy the hell out of this one too.
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