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Noisy Deadlines reviewed Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

Review of 'Nemesis Games' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I read this book after seeing the TV series, which is very unlike me. I remember the TV adaptation was great, and the book is even better. This might be my favorite book in the series. The pace of the book is just perfect with POV chapters for each one of the Rocinante crew members: Holden, Naomi, Alex, and Amos. It’s a different setting as well because they are not inside Rocinante for a change, and they are not even in the same places for most of the time and that just shows how good these characters are.

Kadomi reviewed Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

Review of 'Nemesis games' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Nemesis Games takes the series in a direction that I did not expect after the previous book Cibola Burn. Had the focus of the previous book been the first forays into interstellar exploration through the Ring, we're taken back to the solar system, where the shit hits the fan in a serious way.

Since the first book I had hoped that we would get PoV chapters for the other members of the Rocinante and Nemesis Games got me exactly that. The crew splits up to deal with personal matters, and so we have four different perspectives of the assault of a terrorist group to close down the Ring forever. Amos' PoV was a glimpse at a post-apocalyptic tale, Naomi's story was a bit heart-breaking, and through Alex' PoV I am slightly shipping him with Bobbie now. Familiar characters are brought back, and the stakes are high. Even Holden is no …

Nemesis Games takes the series in a direction that I did not expect after the previous book Cibola Burn. Had the focus of the previous book been the first forays into interstellar exploration through the Ring, we're taken back to the solar system, where the shit hits the fan in a serious way.

Since the first book I had hoped that we would get PoV chapters for the other members of the Rocinante and Nemesis Games got me exactly that. The crew splits up to deal with personal matters, and so we have four different perspectives of the assault of a terrorist group to close down the Ring forever. Amos' PoV was a glimpse at a post-apocalyptic tale, Naomi's story was a bit heart-breaking, and through Alex' PoV I am slightly shipping him with Bobbie now. Familiar characters are brought back, and the stakes are high. Even Holden is no longer annoying me, with some serious character growth on his end (though he's still a bumbling idiot at times). We know the crew so well by now, that this novel feels very personal.

The epilogue is a giant cliffhanger again, and I am ready to find out, who's really behind all of the events of Nemesis Games.

This is the high point of the series so far, a solid 4 to 4.5 stars on my scale.

Lumii

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Jul 17

Adrian Schönig

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June 8, 2019