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What I found cool about this installment is that Mr. Corey demonstrates continued growth in his writing where it pertains to dialogs and interactions between (generally) two people. There are many little exchanges that are so polished between verbal, nonverbal and nuanced "human condition" observations, that I was often left pausing and reflecting on how nicely done something was. I would go as far as saying many of these exchanges rise to level of artwork.

However.

The book itself, or perhaps I should say "story", not only never becomes something greater than it's parts, it actually manages to be much less. The many gems I described above didn't connect...I felt like a fair analogy would be going on a tour through an art gallery, lots of little interesting pieces that I quickly grew bored waiting for them to come together.

There are a number of serial authors that I've become completely disenchanted with, Weber and Martin pop to mind. I wouldn't say this book left me feeling totally negative though, because it had the feel of the author trying on a new suit that's still in need of tailoring. The Storytelling got sublimated to the craftsmanship here, which is not only something that can be fixed next book, it has the potential to be one of the best.

But only if Mr. Corey recognizes where the narrative and plotting just fall totally flat here. The forest got lost in the trees...I sure hope things get back on track.


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Babylon Ashes Book Six of the Expanse James S A Corey 9780356504261 Books Reviews

Somewhere along the way, The Expanse started having a hard time figuring out what it was trying to be. Is it a space opera (one where we focus on the people)? Or is it a story about space and aliens?

For the first three novels, the writing made it clear — the books weren’t particularly interested in spelling out much of the sci-fi portion. Things just “worked”, and we as the readers didn’t need to know the intricacies about it. This was a fantastic story that was simply set in space.

This book has a few elements that have started to go against that idea. There’s one particular deus ex machina towards the end which I would not expect to happen in such a novel. The pacing is totally off compared to the previous books; I was expecting another novel to tie up the main storyline (not the case). I suspect this was due to pacing issues in the previous book. As a result, characterization suffered. Sure, characters change - but there was no insight into the agency of the characters when it happened. It was either mostly “off screen” for established characters such as Jim, or too sudden for newer characters such as Michio Pa.

I’m still invested in the series, but I’m having a hard time sticking with it; my gut feeling is the authors are going out of their way to appeal to the TV show instead of continuing to write the best novel they can, and letting the show writers do their job.
I pre-ordered this book and read it as soon as I got it. I've delayed reviewing it because I wanted so badly to be able to write a good review. Since I've read this series from the beginning, it's fair to say this is the weakest and possibly the last in this series. After all, one of the 2 co-authors (Daniel Abraham) ended his Coin+Daggers series after 6 volumes.

The book uses the same switching of point of view characters for each chapter as the previous 5 have done.. And of course one of the major characters in the series dies.

There is a lot of politics and flipping of viewpoints, but they do tend to drag. The book sets itself up as a possible end to the series or as the possible set up for a continuation with a more galactic rather than just a solar system viewpoint. Time will tell.

This was not a great addition to the series, in fact I would call it the weakest, but isn't that the way many final volumes are?
When Frank Herbert wrote his massive Dune series, there were a couple of books that felt like they were holding operations until the NEXT big book. The action was sometimes perfunctory and the characters were not very well developed with the concepts remaining the glue that bound the series together. Likewise, the last book by George R.R. Martin that pushed the Game of Thrones series forward had long sections with characters that weren't well developed and, frankly, many that we didn't care about with the plot moving forward at a sluggish pace. I mention both of these because of the well developed universe of "The Expanse" series and these two are, largely, in the same category of a well developed universe with characters that we care about.

With the latest book in "The Expanse" series "Babylon's Ashes" does propel the over all story arc for the series forward but also feels padded out with unnecessary subplots and secondary or even third string characters that had very little to the series except for minor subplots that, honestly, get in the way of our main characters and their goals.

Like some others here I felt that the Free Navy (set up in the last book) is a villain that doesn't hold much promise particularly after the villains in the previous books and the introduction of the protomolecule. The mystery at the heart of who developed the molecule, what happened to them and why it was developed (and even more importantly, who they were afraid of) take a backseat here. While the development of the various human factions continues to be interesting, I'm less interested in them taking center stage and more interested in the protomolecule story line and where that was headed after the last novel where humans landed on a planet that was the staging ground for the creation of the aliens behind it.

As others have noted, the authors have been great about telling their stories from multiple point-of-views and, often times, this adds to the suspense of the novels. Here, however, it has an effect of diminishing the suspense and many of these newer characters just don't hold my interest quite as well as those developed in the first three books of the series. The resolution of the story lines also isn't handled quite the way I had hoped (or was hinted at) in the book.

That's not to suggest that this is a bad book. It just isn't the story I was interested in reading or, at least, the way I had hoped this one would develop. If you are committed to the series, you'll still enjoy the book.
What I found cool about this installment is that Mr. Corey demonstrates continued growth in his writing where it pertains to dialogs and interactions between (generally) two people. There are many little exchanges that are so polished between verbal, nonverbal and nuanced "human condition" observations, that I was often left pausing and reflecting on how nicely done something was. I would go as far as saying many of these exchanges rise to level of artwork.

However.

The book itself, or perhaps I should say "story", not only never becomes something greater than it's parts, it actually manages to be much less. The many gems I described above didn't connect...I felt like a fair analogy would be going on a tour through an art gallery, lots of little interesting pieces that I quickly grew bored waiting for them to come together.

There are a number of serial authors that I've become completely disenchanted with, Weber and Martin pop to mind. I wouldn't say this book left me feeling totally negative though, because it had the feel of the author trying on a new suit that's still in need of tailoring. The Storytelling got sublimated to the craftsmanship here, which is not only something that can be fixed next book, it has the potential to be one of the best.

But only if Mr. Corey recognizes where the narrative and plotting just fall totally flat here. The forest got lost in the trees...I sure hope things get back on track.