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A review by peterkeep
Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey
5.0
This is probably my favorite Expanse book yet. It felt really refreshing...almost like a "back to the roots" of the series type book. It probably wasn't that, really, because it's not like the series has meandered away or something. It just felt like that.
Probably because of how it treated the POV characters. Instead of following our favorites and then one or two new people around, we get to focus in on each crew member individually. I loved that move. It was really great to dig back into these characters and see some more of their background and watch them continue developing. I think the character development was great here, because we got to focus on characters intimately.
I also really loved how the plot was treated. This is probably where the "back to roots" feeling came from (although we did get to re-center on the main characters, too). There was a really great mix of plot lines that seemed to mix different genres, just like [b:Leviathon Wakes|8855321|Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)|James S.A. Corey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1411013134s/8855321.jpg|13730452] did...in that one, we had a noir mystery, a political intrigue story, and then a kind of zombie apocalypse type thing....here we have more political intrigue (these guys are pros at that part by now), some post-apocalyptic survival stories, a terrorist plot, and a lot of emotional relationship type stuff (not just between Naomi and Holden, and mostly not romantic anyways). It was all really well done.
I really love this series at this point. It's superbly done, and it's always fun to see the TV version of the books you're reading, so that's a plus for me too.
Probably because of how it treated the POV characters. Instead of following our favorites and then one or two new people around, we get to focus in on each crew member individually. I loved that move. It was really great to dig back into these characters and see some more of their background and watch them continue developing. I think the character development was great here, because we got to focus on characters intimately.
I also really loved how the plot was treated. This is probably where the "back to roots" feeling came from (although we did get to re-center on the main characters, too). There was a really great mix of plot lines that seemed to mix different genres, just like [b:Leviathon Wakes|8855321|Leviathan Wakes (Expanse, #1)|James S.A. Corey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1411013134s/8855321.jpg|13730452] did...in that one, we had a noir mystery, a political intrigue story, and then a kind of zombie apocalypse type thing....here we have more political intrigue (these guys are pros at that part by now), some post-apocalyptic survival stories, a terrorist plot, and a lot of emotional relationship type stuff (not just between Naomi and Holden, and mostly not romantic anyways). It was all really well done.
I really love this series at this point. It's superbly done, and it's always fun to see the TV version of the books you're reading, so that's a plus for me too.