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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
I picked this one off my brothers list. Normally we are fairly in tune with what we read and he rated this one quite highly.
Brother you owe me several hours of my life back.
If you can find a more boring book let me know and I will avoid that one as well. I found nothing really "grab me and don't let go" in this book. I realize in a book one you need to build the world and introduce the characters. But it helps if you can do that a wee tad quicker then Mr. Corey does in this one.
The mains did not hold me at all and the one character that I saw as maybe worth investing in he kills off early.
This one was not for me.
Brother you owe me several hours of my life back.
If you can find a more boring book let me know and I will avoid that one as well. I found nothing really "grab me and don't let go" in this book. I realize in a book one you need to build the world and introduce the characters. But it helps if you can do that a wee tad quicker then Mr. Corey does in this one.
The mains did not hold me at all and the one character that I saw as maybe worth investing in he kills off early.
This one was not for me.
adventurous
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm gonna be so honest: I don't read SFF for the worlds they create. I see this sentiment a lot in the SFF reading groups I'm part of, that people read to get sucked into the world of the book. I don't; I read SFF for the characters and the worlds they live in mostly serve to help define them and to pose questions of how people would react in situations they could not experience in our world.
This is all to say, I have fallen in love with the world of The Expanse and the characters within it act only as lenses for me to see more of that world. In any other book, I would have quit ten chapters in. Miller and Holden are fine but they're also archetypes, two-dimensional: Holden is the cowboy with a code, Miller is the noir cop. Neither of these archetypes are really challenged and neither of them really change. But by pulling from those archetypes and those genres, Corey has built a world that uses well-worn genres and beats to build something new.
It was the space Mormons that sold me. I'm not Mormon but I have read a LOT of Westerns from the 1910s and if you haven't, you truly do not understand how common Mormons were in that genre. I've been wondering why sci-fi that builds off Westerns completely ignores the omnipresence of Mormons in Westerns for longer than I care to admit. My noir/Western/Americana-loving nerd self is singing.
I don't know if my love for the world will get me through nine of these suckers but I'm game to try the second one. I do hope that at some point, Corey gets better at writing women. We'll see!
This is all to say, I have fallen in love with the world of The Expanse and the characters within it act only as lenses for me to see more of that world. In any other book, I would have quit ten chapters in. Miller and Holden are fine but they're also archetypes, two-dimensional: Holden is the cowboy with a code, Miller is the noir cop. Neither of these archetypes are really challenged and neither of them really change. But by pulling from those archetypes and those genres, Corey has built a world that uses well-worn genres and beats to build something new.
It was the space Mormons that sold me. I'm not Mormon but I have read a LOT of Westerns from the 1910s and if you haven't, you truly do not understand how common Mormons were in that genre. I've been wondering why sci-fi that builds off Westerns completely ignores the omnipresence of Mormons in Westerns for longer than I care to admit. My noir/Western/Americana-loving nerd self is singing.
I don't know if my love for the world will get me through nine of these suckers but I'm game to try the second one. I do hope that at some point, Corey gets better at writing women. We'll see!
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes