Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. CoreyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I'm catching this series up--read Leviathan's Gate early on, then didn't pursue it. As space opera it's quite excellent--your pulse races and settles all the way through, and you never lose interest. But I have to say this did feel like the middle of a long march, rather than a new exciting installment. Jim Holden as the hero is kind of a parody of a wooden hero, and the books kind of wink at him. "He made his reputation as a man with no subtexts". In this book he has a sort of female counterpart in Anna V., that minister on the cultural mission.
This book spends a lot of time on the meaning of justice and revenge, and not quite as much on technical subjects. The Ring is out there scaring them all--is it a gate? Is it a space of its own? The technical side is mostly about the ships that navigate the expanse, especially the converted generation ship Nauvoo.
The Ring is pretty much in Fantasy territory, and the authors are comfortable there. At the very end we get a sense of how much bigger the Expanse is going to get, which is interesting. All in all it's more than enough to keep me going in the series.
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