Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Cibola Burn (The Expanse Book 4) by James S A Corey

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Spoilers for Abaddon’s Gate and series 3 of the TV series. I came to this series via the television adaptation, and it’s been a difficult choice with each season – read or watch first.  This time I watched, and while the adaptation continues to stay true to the shape of the story while tinkering around the edges, a major difference between Cibola Burn and season 4 was the book’s tight focus on the story of Ilus/New Terra while TV bounces us around between the additional […]

Where It All Started – the first Expanse novel

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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I’ve been reading more sci-fi this year, and I figured I should finally get involved with this Expanse thing everyone is talking about.  I’d tried watching the show earlier in the year but it didn’t pull me in, so I figured I’d try the novels first. Leviathan Wakes takes place in the near future – Mars have been colonized, and there are stations further out supporting millions of humans in the Belt.  There are tensions between the Belters and the inner planets, and a political/terrorist […]

I forgot these started so bro-y

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

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I’ve extrapolated previously about how much I love this series but going back to book one and there’s part of me that’s astonished I made it any further. The later books do a masterful job of shifting perspectives but for this first one we only get two – Holden and Miller – and with Holden being the milquetoastiest of all milquetoasts, Miller is the driving personality. And then he goes and falls in love with a dead girl he’s never met. The ick factor is […]

Penultimate Expanse Feelings

Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8) by James S.A. Corey

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One of these days I’m going to have to do a full-series Expanse re-read. Probably not until after next year, when the last book is published. But whenever that happens, I feel like this book might be worth five stars. Maybe the last one, too. I actually finished it when it was first published over two months ago, but I’m so far behind in my reviews, this one isn’t going to super informative. I remember it traumatizing me, but in a good way. All that […]

This series just keeps getting better

Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey

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I have a whole bunch of books in my back log that I need to review (another trip!) but I wanted to jump on this one FIRST because REASONS. And they are spoilery reasons, not just for this book but for Endgame. So I’ll do some regular chit-chat first and push all those spoilers down below the jump. Yeah? I love these books more and more and beyond words. The world building is just so complete and I can’t get past how engaging and enthralling it […]

More Expanse Side Plot

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As I write this and extol the virtues of the Expanse series, I have a tinge of guilt.  I recommend the show to friends, in addition to the books, but I am part of the reason it, the show, was cancelled.  ScyFy owned the rights to only the first run of the show and I don’t watch any scripted shows at airtime, I am part of the cause for the cancellation.  That said, it has officially been picked up by Amazon, apparently Jeff Bezos is […]



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