I don’t have any issue with her POV per se, but I also didn’t feel like her character felt necessary to explore. Tanaka, as far as I know, is a new POV character in the series. Honestly speaking, the only reason why Leviathan Falls didn’t receive a full 5 stars rating from me is due to Tanaka’s POV in the first half of the novel. It’s the final volume in the series, and although I didn’t feel like I was bored with any of the pages written here, I also wondered whether the first half of the novel-mainly Tanaka’s hunting session-needed to be that long. But in a way, it also felt like a beginning of a new self-contained installment. Leviathan Falls continue from where Tiamat’s Wrath left off.

“The love of a parent for their kid is the last thing to go.” Endings are hard to nail, and the authors should be proud of this achievement. Yes, this is the end, and it’s an emotional and satisfying conclusion. Corey duo is the first big space opera series ever finished to its completion. Comprising of nine novels and multiple short stories and novellas, The Expanse by James S.A. This is why this review is a new milestone for me. If you’ve been following my reading journey for a while, then you might realize that usually, the long series I finished are all epic fantasy series.

My last review of 2021 is for the conclusion to the first big space opera series of novels I’ve ever finished to its completion, and I’m glad it’s The Expanse.Īnd so here we are, at the end of another long series. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.Īs nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.īut the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte.

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