cibola burn – Cannonball Read 17

The Expanse keeps expanding!

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

June 8, 2025 by llp Leave a Comment

This is the fourth book in The Expanse series, and sees the focus both narrow back to our main crew while also expanding into genuinely new worlds. I have been making my way through both the books and the TV series at the same time, and am now at the point where my reading is how way beyond my TV progress, but it’s ok. In this series, focal character James Holden is a perennial optimist, with noble ideas about humanity and truth and morality. He’s […]

The one where Holden gets to be a do-gooder on another planet.

Cibola Burn (The Expanse, #4) by James S.A. Corey

August 22, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

Whoops, need to get this review out before I start my re-read of book five. This wasn’t my least favorite of these books the first time through, that for some reason was book two (even though I can objectively say that one is a better book, I just prefer this more inferior one for some reason). This is also most people’s least favorite of the series, and I can see why, I really can. This is actually the only one of these I read in […]

Interplanetary megastellar hydrostatic, there’s no gravity between us, OUR LOVE IS AUTOMATIC.

October 17, 2014 by narfna Leave a Comment

The Expanse is one of those series I sort of accidentally fell in love with. I only sort of liked it at first, while also being terrified by it (the first two books especially could fit comfortably into the horror genre, in my opinion). And then the third book hit and I was suddenly really, really into it. I know if I went back and re-read the first two I would retroactively love them, because that’s what always happens to me in these situations (Farscape […]

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