There were a couple of moments that I felt smacked just a bit of Deus Ex Machina, without which the story would have had a very different conclusion, but I didn't think they justified dropping a star for - they don't jar badly enough to spoil the story. Martin's stylistic influences here, with the two authors of the Expanse being part of his "writing circle". If Persepolis Rising is the series' TESB, then I guess Tiamat's Wrath is its ROTJ - the new book very successfully takes us from this low point to a very satisfying (to me, anyway) conclusion, but not without some great drama and very emotional losses along the way - let's just say that you can feel George R.R. very much the "The Empire Strikes Back" of the series. The previous (seventh) book in the series, Persepolis Rising, was both good and frustrating in equal measure - because it was the first half of a major two-book arc and ended on a very downbeat note, with our main characters scattered and the Bad Guys firmly in the ascendancy. WARNING: some non-specific spoilers ahead for this book and the previous one in the series, hopefully nothing that would ruin it for any but the most fanatical of spoilerphobes, but well, you've been warned! Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enoughĪs a big fan of the book series and the TV adaptation, I pounced on this the moment it came out - I'd intended to start reading it after I finished the book I was partway through, but I confess that as soon as I unpacked this I put the other one aside and jumped straight in to find out what was happening. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule - and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. Corey's New York Times bestselling science fiction series, the Expanse - now a major TV series. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father the emperor doesn't guess.Īnd throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.Īt the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition.
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