Good, but not great. Too many perspectives in this one; I'd rather focus on 4 or 5. Plus the Marco is lame comic book type villian. Regardless, important events happening to set up the rest of the series. ( )

I found this one a little hard to follow because of the large number of moving parts. After five books in the series there are a lot of characters and places and ships to keep track of. Yet the story maintained a view of the main narrative line; I'm not sure how the author(s) managed it. Very little development of characters or relationships but at least there was a lot of wrapping up of ongoing conflict, and an ending promising the hope of some expansion of view. Sorry to be so vague, but spoilers, you know. ( )

I'm really hoping the rest of the series continues to be as good as the first 2/3s have been, because I haven't been disappointed once. ( )

The Expanse 6 ( )

I, deeply truly unabashedly, love this series. Every single book in it and every single place it takes me. I love live in this world, reading books, stories, novella's, even background political essays, forever if I could.

This next piece continues to take us deeper into the big climatic event that happened at the end of Book Five and slammed us into a new shifting world/universe/political dilemma. I love that this book was a step back from the gates (except in one small, but important part) and focused on what would happen with the civilians changed, shifting, being upended.

I loved the return of the characters we saw return. I loved how much more Peaches and Bobbie were around, and getting to see Anna, Chrisjen, everyone. I screamed at the loss of a certain character. I loved seeing all the steps from all the sides, the choices people made and their beliefs, both unwavering and slowly changing due to circumstances or choice and no-choice.

I deeply appreciated the gorgeous shows of plurality and am in love with 'the magic word.' ( )