Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


This only made me want book nine more. But still no release date.

Auberon (The Expanse, #8.5) by James S.A. Corey

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As with all of these Expanse novellas, I had a bit of a hard time getting into it (new characters, new setting, very discombobulating), but it had me by the end. Auberon was published after the eighth book, but it takes place right after book seven, when Duarte’s empire is just getting started. The Laconians have installed a brand new Governor on Auberon, one of the many colonized worlds of the gate system that will be instrumental in feeding the empire, and he’s our main POV […]

Zoom in as the scope expands

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 […]



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