Abbadon’s Gate (The Expanse #3)

Me, after first book: The two POV characters are too similar, just a couple of dudey dudes.

Second book: More POV characters, some of them women. But they still all kind of act like dudey dudes.

Me, after second book: Better, but a bit short on ideas and thematic resonance.

Third book: Here’s a new character! A pastor, whose job it is to talk about the philosophical implications of discovering alien life. But she ends up saving the day in a drug-addled action scene.

I preferred the second book to this one. The attempts to bring more philosophical discussion into the mix felt underdeveloped, in favour of a final action sequence that lasts way too long, in my opinion.

Still, onto the next!

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