The Book Thread - fiction, nonfiction, reference, etc

[nnodley]

Haha glad book 7 has hooked you.

As a person that has just gotten into reading, is that normal? Have a couple off books in a series and then get great again?

I mean I don't doubt that they weren't great books, but the tonal shift from a much more Protomolecule overall story to a solar system wide war was weird.  Even in the show i didn't care for the change in season 5/6.

Not really a spoiler, but the addition of Marco Inaros randomly in 5/6 without even a slight build up to it in the previous books/seasons didn't fit right with me.  I guess maybe that's the point, he went under the radar. Idk, I've seem a lot of people saying the same about 5/6 being a slog to get through.  And that 7, 8, 9 are amazin.

[nnodley]

But yeah, I don't think it's weird to have a book or two in the middle of the series that's not as engaging or as great

[Legend]

9 books!? 

Even with a 2 book series I was starting to get later spoilers recommended to me by the algorithm. At least in your case you've already watched the show.

[the-pi-guy]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheExpanse/comments/s1c8ld/the_expanse_book_rankingsratings/

Seems normal ^
Some people liked Book 6, but for a lot of people it's way at the bottom. 

Haha glad book 7 has hooked you.

As a person that has just gotten into reading, is that normal? Have a couple off books in a series and then get great again?

Isn't everything a mix?
You got some things that are good all the way through, you got some things that are good only at the start, or only at the end, and all of the other possibilities. 

[nnodley]

9 books!? 

Even with a 2 book series I was starting to get later spoilers recommended to me by the algorithm. At least in your case you've already watched the show.

Yeah, I'm steering clear of any long series for a while. I've read two longer series back to back. Red Rising and Expanse. Red Rising though was pretty fantastic the entire way through.  

1-4 of expanse was great though even having seen the show. 


I have tons of standalone novels on my shelves that I'll try to get through after expanse.