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Tiamat's Wrath - James S.A. Corey (Review)


Tiamat's Wrath

Contains spoilers for The Expanse series

By - Karl Vu


Tiamat's Wrath is the 8th book in the The Expanse series. A few years after the events of Persepolis Rising, the crew of the Rocinante has split up once again. Holden is a prisoner of Laconia and Amos is undercover on it. Alex, Bobbie, and Naomi are running missions for the resistance. Elvi Okoye, who was a main character in Cibola Burn, is researching uninhabited systems in the rings which might house protomolecule artifacts. Winston Duarte, leader of Laconia runs a test on the ring gates to discover what is causing some ships to disappear when travelling through the gates. A bomb is detonated in one of the gates leading to an uninhabitable system. Whatever people or things that were controlling the gates have been provoked and cause a neutron star on the other side of a gate to collapse, sending a massive energy burst into ring space. Everything in ring space is destroyed, and Elvi's crew just barely escapes into Laconia sustaining major injuries. With the loss of control of the ring space, an opening is created in Laconia's defenses. Resistance pockets in all of the rings are finally able to communicate with each other, and they decide to assemble a fleet to assault Laconia...

The Expanse finally seems to be getting back on track after the Free Navy story, and in my opinion, is the best book in the series so far. The whole plot is nonstop action and mystery, and is full of twists and turns. Laconia is really developed upon, and the book dives more into Laconia's mysterious ships and how they were built. The subplot of the mysterious entities controlling the rings is really interesting and I want to see how humanity deals with them in the final book. There are some unfortunate character deaths in this book, but it's not as dry and out-of-nowhere as the major character death in Babylon's Ashes.

Overall, I would give Tiamat's Wrath an absolute 10/10, and I am really excited for where the series goes next in the final book.

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  1. NateApril 24, 2021 at 4:47 PM

    Nice post! Your review of this novel, describing it as nonstop action and full of twist and turns, makes me interesting in the novel and series. As well, you high praise of the novel giving it a 10/10 goes along with your review. Overall, great post

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