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Cibola Burn
by James S.A. Corey
The gates have opened and revealed a thousand habitable planets ripe for the settling, which has led to humanity expanding beyond its borders in a mad rush: the first proof-of-concept is a planet named New Terra or Ilus, depending on who you listen to. Which makes Cibola Burn a sort of new-world tale, an exercise in how colonialism really fuckin sucks, plus displaying human selfishness and greed versus arbitrary property rights and shortsightedness in the face of a far, far bigger problem. The clash between the squatters and the corporate settlement is maddening at times due to people’s (realistic) inability to work together, and poor Holden being trapped in the middle trying to mediate.
The book isn’t as ball-to-the-walls insane as [b:Abaddon’s Gate|16131032|Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)|James S.A. Corey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407572059s/16131032.jpg|17606564] and has a bit of a slower start as it sets the stage — until Holden finally enters the picture and things start heating up on the planet, and I wound up glued to the pages and desperate to find out what happened next. As always, the new characters are a diverse and interesting bunch, but this time my favourite character was prrrobably (predictably) Dmitri Havelock. Also, help, I still love Miller so much; the investigator chapters were filled with really lovely dream-like prose and made my heart ache. ♥
The final epilogue chapter super piques my interest for what’s coming down the pike, and everyone is telling me that Nemesis Games is apparently wild so I’m excited to continue. I love this series!!
The book isn’t as ball-to-the-walls insane as [b:Abaddon’s Gate|16131032|Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3)|James S.A. Corey|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407572059s/16131032.jpg|17606564] and has a bit of a slower start as it sets the stage — until Holden finally enters the picture and things start heating up on the planet, and I wound up glued to the pages and desperate to find out what happened next. As always, the new characters are a diverse and interesting bunch, but this time my favourite character was prrrobably (predictably) Dmitri Havelock. Also, help, I still love Miller so much; the investigator chapters were filled with really lovely dream-like prose and made my heart ache. ♥
The final epilogue chapter super piques my interest for what’s coming down the pike, and everyone is telling me that Nemesis Games is apparently wild so I’m excited to continue. I love this series!!