Wow. What a brutal book. Is it weird to say that my favorite character (besides Jessn and Kampar) was the swarm? I thought that bit was really interesting.
I had trouble w this one. It is an incredibly thorough book and very heavy on science which I seem to remember folks commenting on on the expanse series as well..authors are obviously insanely smart. But I'm not a scientist so a lot of that went over my head. Wtf is a protein assay?
I think it will be interesting to see where they take the other two. We already know from the final statements scattered throughout that everyone comes to hate Dafid. I'm not sure I want to go on that journey to hate him. I didn't even particularly like him…but my heart did hurt for him when he realized he had to stop the uprising and the deal he had to end up striking w Jellett. That sucks. No good option there.
I grew pretty tired of the constant slew of aliens and I actually felt really really bad for the night drinkers. I had to sort of tune some of that out when the gang went to fight them or when the carryx finally killed them all. I felt bad for the berries and the not turtle. I felt bad for essentially everyone involved. Like I said, the book was brutal.
Tough to read while we are enacting our own insane and ongoing genocide on a people on our own planet. Tough to not draw connections to slavery etc. I wonder what the message of this book is. From the expanse, I would wager that my politics often align w the authors’ but I felt this lightly veiled idea of “colonization&empire for the sake of it is bad” didn't move me the way it did in other aspects of the expanse. Maybe lacking on the political side? Maybe the characters aren't as well developed? I'm not sure.
Something about it fell flat for me even as I was curious to see what happened in the end. You guys might have to read the other two and summarize them for me tho.
Love that narrator tho! Wow. A real command of his voice and the absolutely bonkers vocab thru the whole thing.
One question tho, what was the second species on Aijiin that the carryx were interested in?
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