![]() ![]() I appreciate this line: “The book is about whether or not the characters can successfully come back to each other when the world as they know it is ending and make the crew - and the family they’ve built - whole again.” That built family is the heart of what I love about this series, and I agree with Tor’s Renay Williams that splitting them up for this episode was a wise move each gets to stand alone in the spotlight in a way that’s helpful to their development, and that question of the coming-together-again feels absolutely highest-stakes to the reader. The Tor.com article is called “Team Dynamics”, which is telling. ![]() It’s my impression here that the hard sci-fi stuff falls away perhaps more than ever, and the people – their relationships, personalities, and interpersonal dynamics – step forward. I don’t want to say much more, plot-wise, but don’t think I have to. ![]() Bobbie doesn’t get backstory so much as she gets screentime in which to be a friend and developing character, particularly to Alex. Our four central characters, the ‘family’ of Holden, Naomi, Amos, and Alex, get split up in this story, which is excruciating for each of them (some more than others), and each on their separate adventures gets substantial backstory development. Of all people, Clarissa Mao returns as well. Reviewing the end of that last (book four) review I wrote, I am happy to report that we did indeed get Jefferson Mays back as narrator, and Avasarala and Bobbie Draper. The Expanse series: Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, Abaddon’s Gate, Cibola Burn, and now book five, Nemesis Games. ![]()
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