dana_naylor's reviews
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Tone of the book is all over the place. It reads like a light story, but our main female character is searching for the murderer of her fiancé. I kept being kicked out of my suspension of disbelief with a police detective (main male character) who brings along an unauthorized psychic and her flighty friend to interview suspects and to active crime scenes.

Not for me.

Oh, sad ending.
I don’t remember this character from earlier books.
Nothing with the other children or schools.
We get the story of Nadya and her time in a Drowned World.
There is a quote from Beneath the Sugar Sky at the start of the book, so Nadya may also be in it, but I read it so long ago, I don’t recall.

Wow.
30 years after the last book ended....

I'm seeing the Expanse series as three trilogies.
The first deals with the protomolecue and the gates.
The second with the civil war in our solar system - and I'm overall meh about that trilogy.
This third is empire and the results of whatever took out the protomolecule. And I am here for it!

Once I was a bit over halfway through this book, I couldn't put it down. Its copyright is 2017, so a timely time for thinking about fascism and how to fight it.  We're back to a more manageable number of points of view. I'm going to have a tough time finishing a few other books I'm reading and not picking up the next book right away (I did read the blurbs for the next two books because I couldn't help myself). 

Picks up from prior book and we are in civil war in our solar system - or a terrorist action, depending on which side wins. Less escapism for me in this one and more sadness. Book is still written well and at a different time I may have enjoyed it more.

Instead of only 4 povs, we get 17.
8 of them are people we have had as a main pov in prior books and 5 as people who we know from prior books.

Crew of Rocinante is separated while ship is getting repaired from end of prior book. 4 pov's are Holden, Amos, Alex, and Naomi. We learn Naomi's backstory. Set in our solar system.

Spoiler text for plot 

Naomi's son destroys earth. Amos gets Clarissa Mao back. We have start of Civil War within the solar system and the Rings are eating some ships that go through them. Protomolecule is stolen. All the violence here is human except for epilogue which primes us for next book.

Contains material from Discworld diaries: City Watch, Fools’ Guild, Reformed Vampyres, and Lu-Tze.
I enjoyed the monks and the guards most.
For completionists, but worth it for us :)

Overall disappointing.

I enjoyed the world and the characters, but I had problems with the writing and pacing. If the author had kept to purely fantasy rather than having the romance as a part of it, I'd have liked it more. The sex scenes are written like they were in romances published in the 90s and early 2000s. 
"even through all the layers of crushed fabric between them, she could feel the enormity of his passion pressing against her," and later, "And then he pressed forward, gentle at first, but then deep, hard, a powerful force cleaving her in two, his hunger consuming."
Ugh. Cleaving???

So that was disappointing and had me just skimming the sex scenes.

I'm also annoyed that this is part of a duology, so the book ends with a lot left unsettled. I've just been reading some author discussions complaining that people say they won't buy a series until it's complete. The reason for that is that I want to read a complete story, not Part I of II. Second book is scheduled for release in Nov 2025. I may or may not pick it up then.

LOVED it.
Laughed lots while reading it.

In world of Clockwork Boys, but I haven't read those books yet and didn't have any problems following anything. Loved main characters. Book was meant to be first in a trilogy, so ends setting up the next book, but as with romances, it's fine on its own. (Which is excellent because Kingfisher hasn't written book 2 yet!)

If you like reading romance, fantasy, or T Kingfisher, this is a must read.

I really enjoyed Richardson's Greywalker series and was excited to read her new book.
It is the start of a new series and I'm looking forward to reading the next in it.
Unfortunately, the start is a bit rough.
It's set in the 1930s with all the slang. Modeled after hard-boiled noir detective fiction with a bit of supernatural thrown in. She includes a glossary at the end of the book in case some of the slang is confusing. I'm interested in more of the world and more stories set here. I had a hard time following the story initially - the main character has chosen to get rid of some of his memories, but that didn't make sense to me until halfway through the book. So we're trying to solve a mystery but don't have all the information and aren't aware that we are missing major things. Also there are a number of typos in the ebook that were distracting for me.

So mixed opinions overall - but I do plan on buying the next in the series when it's announced and released.

I want more!!!!

Really enjoy these comics. Drawing has improved by Vol 3. Love the teeth.