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OK, I liked this book but... WHERE I HAD READ THIS BEFORE? I think that at its core, this second book is was too much similar to the first one.I mean, there is a search for a girl (different age but the same basic idea), a mystery about a threat, and the tensions between the policital powers.The only difference is that while the first book, Leviathan Wakes can be read a stand-alone book if you wish, maybe since the authors weren't sure to get the chance of... expanding it (pun intended)...
Leviathan Wakes was one of my great reads this year (review: http://carols.booklikes.com/post/3263... ). It broke into my reading blahs and set off a trend of great reads. After finishing, I promptly placed a library request for Caliban’s War, out of general interest and just the tiniest bit of series OCD. When it arrived, I was in the middle of monthly reads for my book club, then all hell broke open over at Goodreads, resulting in a loss of reading mojo, quickly followed by reviewing mojo. Bri...
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2021 reread:Avasarala is still the best. I love that woman. Felt somewhat lukewarm about Holden, to be honest. But his crew is still pretty cool. Overall, though, on this reread the novel was not as close to five stars for me as it was the first time around. But maybe this time I will actually continue with the rest of the series. I guess we'll find out.*****2018 review:I liked this a little better than the first one, I think.While it doesn't quite reach the highs of Leviathan Wakes, it is more...
*** 4.25 *** "...“That man’s asshole must be tight enough right now to bend space.”..." It must be the right time for me and Sci-Fi, because I loved it! Caliban's War is the second installment in the "Expance" series and I actually enjoyed it better than the first one! No, nothing was wrong with the first one either, I even missed our pulp-noir drunken detective with nothing to lose, but fortunately the authors gave us to kick-ass female characters who more than made up for Miller's loss. "...
In this second installment, we're still following events I already know (more or less) from the show. After billions of years of being in the Solar system, unable to do what it came here to do, the protomolecule is working hard on finishing its job now, whatever that job is. We meet a few new players in this second installment, most notably Avasarala and Bobbie. The former is a potty-mouthed deputy to the UN Secretary General, the latter a kick-ass Martian Marine.These two allow us glimpses at E...
3.5*So similar to the first book in structure but I enjoyed it much more than the first one.
I´ve recently finished the eighth part and I must say that the immense coherency, precision in plotting, and meta context are so finetuned that it is a joy to read. The effort to polish this until perfection without hardly any logic holes, lengths, and errors and to stay comprehensible must be immense and I must say that I´ve rarely ever seen something like that in Sci-Fi because it´s such a difficult task. Mostly, the novels of a series are closed in itself and there are not so many retrospects...
**Reread update 5/17/17**One big thing that stands out to me going back to this after reading all the available books in the series is that my complaint about distinct bad guys not getting introduced until very late in the stories was addressed. From this point on we almost always have a face of the threat through most of the action, and that’s an improvement that made a great series even better.I also wanted to check this out again after seeing the second season of the TV series. The show has g...
[5 Stars] That ending. Someone hold me. I wasn't ready for that.
