11/21/2023 0 Comments Leviathan fallsThe Roci and its crew personified that theme throughout their adventures and they are given a good ending in the final chapters. What really worked for me is that Amos has basically turned into a wholesome comedic character, and that detective Miller makes a final appearance.īecause that is the other big theme of the series: no matter how crazy things will get in the big bad universe, there will always remain human connection, love and moments of kindness. I’m not sure if they ever reached that status and not sure of they ever will, but after reading a whole series they do stick in the mind. In earlier reviews I said that the Roci and crew had the potential to become SF icons. And if you kept reading the series to follow the Roci and crew then this book will still offer a lot. The Expanse series as a whole has always been very character-focused, more like an epic fantasy series in that regard than a SF series. Over the course of the nine books, these four have really gained memorable and recognizable personalities, and this book is their last big goodbye. On the positive side, the Rocinante crew of Jim, Naomi, Alex and Amos has never felt so real, so well developed. Notably Alex’s son and the hardline Colonel Tanaka. Their perspectives didn’t add much to the story, and weren’t interesting to read about in the first place. The page count is also stretched out because there are one or two POV characters that could have been left out entirely. With each chapter we switch character perspective and with each switch we need to dive again into the emotional state of the character in question, and that leads to a lot of repetition from chapter to chapter. The authors’ writing styles don’t exactly lighten the load, as their chapters are full of repetition and the structure of the chapters is such that we keep going over the same events multiple times. I can see how the entire story of the last three books works as a single whole, but as an individual book, this one lacked the excitement of the previous ones. But it turns out that all the really mind-blowing events already happened in the previous book, Tiamat’s Wrath, and this final book is more like the aftermath of it and all that is left is a whole bunch of hard work to get us all to the conclusion. I guess I was hoping for a different kind of story, one more focused on more science fiction weirdness. That fits the theme of the series well, but for this reader it was also a long plodding road to read through it. Eventually everyone is forced to work together to face this threat, but it is a long plodding road to get there. Following this theme, this book shows the Rocinante and the Laconians engaged in a lengthy cat and mouse game of fighting each other while there is a far greater threat upon us all in the form of aliens trying to wipe out our species. The plot of Leviathan Falls keeps holding onto the series’ main theme of humanity forever struggling to cooperate, even in the face of galactic scale events. This final book was… not exactly what I was hoping for. All the stuff about the protomolecule and the ring builders will end here.
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