Second Read - March 2021 (4/5 stars)Although I'm generally not someone who rereads very much, 2021 seems to be my year for it. I recently finished The Great Library series by Rachel Caine, and am now well into my reread and completion of The Expanse. Rereading after having watched the TV series of The Expanse has been an interesting exercise. There are (necessarily) lots of changes, both small and large as the story moves from page to screen, but it has managed to capture the essence of what mak...

4.5 StarsSpoiler Discussion: https://youtu.be/LEHrIg-CklkI really enjoyed this third installment in the Expanse series. The beginning started out a little slow, but once the story got moving, it did not stop. There are several new characters introduced in this novel. Personally, I found myself more drawn to the chapters which featured previously-established characters. However, I did eventually warm up to the new additions in the cast, although I struggled with Melba's character arc. I appreciat...

I've been waiting for this book since I finished the previous book in the series. I've been actively anticipating it for the past few months. I've been hungering after it for the past week or so. So, with all those high expectations, did Abaddon's Gate live up to my hopes?Why, yes. Yes, it did.It had everything I could hope for in a science fiction novel. Great characters: check. Great worldbuilding: check. Awesome journeys through the depths of space into mysterious... things: check. Pulse-poun...

2.5/5 starsThis was underwhelming; my least favorite novel in the series so far.Please tell me I’m not the only one who thought this was subpar. Abaddon’s Gate, the third book in The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey duo, was honestly a struggle for me to finish. The story begins almost a year since the end of Caliban’s War, and although it started interesting and wholesome, I overall have mixed feelings about it. I do think that Abaddon’s Gate is the weakest installment out of three books I’ve...

There’s a utopian idea in some sci-fi like Star Trek that humanity exploring space will bring out the best in us as a species. I think that anyone who believes that hasn’t paid enough attention to what we are actually like. That’s one of the big reasons that I’m loving this series. It shows that people suck whether they’re on Earth, Mars, a moon, an asteroid, a spaceship, or exploring an alien construct built by an ancient protomolecule. This third book in the Expanse series picks up shortly af...

Fanboys´ ElysiumSome of the main plot elements that found interesting use in this part and the usual, weird thoughts:Consciousness, how it could be influenced, how subjective it is and that just seeing something as the only one doesn´t mean that it doesn´t exist. The whole Miller quanta protomolecule thing is a perfect example of that we don´t know how brains work, what could influence the poor buddy, what mental illness is, what reality is, where and what Miller is… Programmable, intelligent ma...

Series OCD: sometimes I has it, sometimes I don’t. Despite the success of the first book, Leviathan Wakes (my review), after the disappointing Caliban’s War (my review), I was all set to walk away from Corey and The Expanse series until friends suggested the final book was a capstone worth reading. I’d agree with that assessment; after the recycled plot in Caliban’s War disappointed, Abaddon’s Gate pulls itself together with an exploration of galactic human politics after the protomolecule has b...

Another adventure in space came to an end but this one screamed "filler" after few chapters. New characters were not impressive and I will be more than happy to not meet them again in the series. The regular cast too was disappointing. That extra star is for "mutiny" plot, the only part where I liked everything. Never thought I would miss prototype this much. Hope meet them sooner than later.

I still adore this series, but this book felt slower to me than the previous installments because I cared less about the perspectives we were following. This felt more like a filler book, and the plot had a “stop and start” element to it that kept me from getting interested until we were more than halfway through. This book did feel like the end of one chapter and beginning of another, but I’m interested to get back to some other perspectives we’ve gotten in past books.

Wait! Wait! Something doesn't make sense. (Spoilers)If the alien computer system created a "slow zone" that changed the laws of physics and created a speed limit, then a Marine lobbed a grenade at an alien security thing which caused the speed limit to instantly change which lead to so horrific casualties in the human fleet because nothing could move faster than a lobbed grenade, then how in the hell is the final third of the book a huge gun battle? Did I miss the part where Miller made bullets

”A history professor at university had once told her, Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It’s attractive because it’s simple, it’s direct, it’s almost always available as an option. When you can’t think of a good rebuttal for your opponent’s argument, you can always punch them in the face.”An alien artifact has appeared in Uranus’s orbit, where it has built a gate that leads to a starless space beyond. James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been lured there alon...

Abaddon's Gate (Expanse, #3), James S.A. CoreyAbaddon's Gate is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). James Holden and his crew on the salvaged Martian warship Rocinante played a role in two major events in human history: saving the Earth from the first direct proof of alien technology discovered in our solar system, and saving as many people as they could when a new form of the technology appeared on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. As part of the firs...

Summary:A "slingshotter" takes his ship Y Que through the protomolecule ring created by Venus, near Uranus; it accelerates past 99 g's and his body is splattered inside the ship--but the ship doesn't come out the other side of the ring. A live feed from the Y Que broadcasts the events.The Roci crew has had a propsperous year; they've made a bunch of ship upgrades including joining Naomi and Holden's rooms and and adding a rail gun. Detective Miller continues to visit Holden, but he doesn't seem