Cibola Burn by James S.A. CoreyMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
After having skipped the first book in the series (since I watched the first season of the same-named TV series), I started off with the second book in the series, Caliban's War. It was good. A tense plot, good action scenes, just good. Not great, good. It's sequel, Abaddon's Gate, was almost as good. The scale went down, despite being a space opera. We went from solar system to planet, to ''area in space'', to what we have now in part 4, Cibola Burn.
And it was bad. I mean, it was everything and nothing, a mixed bag. It started out as a conflict between settlers and big government. And then before we knew it, Holden and his team were shoehorned in, because of course, he needs to be there. And then we had super storms, decaying orbits and by the time we got to the killer slugs, the whole plot, if there ever was one, was off the rails. The thing everyone wants to see, the aliens, were just a simple side-plot, meant to round out the already messy whole that makes up this book.
I have lower expectations for its sequel now, which I hope will result in a more positive review.
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