The Expanse novel series thread WARNING TV SPOILERS

I'm not too far in but if anything bad happens to hero of book 8 Muskrat, I will completely lose it.

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Can confirm Muskrat survives unscathed, other than needing a steroid shot for a zero-gravity-induced sore hip at one point.

Two-third through and I keep expecting it to really reel me in, but it hasn't happened yet.

Sadly, it never did reel me in. Generalized impressions (but no plot details): it didn't have as much plot as the preceding books, and a lot (too much?) of the action was mostly focused on moving the characters into place for a climax that never really comes. The denouement was really dragged out too -- in fact, a lot of details throughout felt like they were at best there for flavor and didn't contribute much to the main story.

Very much agree with you.

I found book 6 and book 9 to be the weakest books in the series for kind of the same reason - not much plot, lots of flavor detail. In the concluding book, I want exactly the opposite! maybe they're just not that good at writing climaxes/endings. There's still a satisfaction in the story resolving but I felt let down. Liked the epilogue though

Ah hell, that blue block was supposed to be SPOILERS but I did keep it pretty vague. Sorry

New, presumably final story collection now out, collection all the previous stories/novellas, plus 1 new one which is about 50-something Filip stranded on a very thinly populated backwater planet after the gate system closes down.

2-1-5-3-4 so far - they remind me of reading a bunch of Bernard Cornwell novels, compulsive page turners even when they’re not exactly good and as soon as I finish one it’s like “well shit gotta find out what happens next.”

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ranking the novels