I give Nemesis Games 4 stars. I guess that I am just going to be giving the entire Expanse series 4 stars at this rate, but this one gets a higher 4 stars than the previous books. This review contains a minor spoiler.
Normally, I would have something to say about how it’s obvious that the book was written by white men and how their vision of the future still involves the patriarchy being in force, but either that was left out of this book or I completely spaced it from my brain. Either way, it was very refreshing to not have that be at the beginning of the book. The character with a history of domestic abuse was unfortunately obvious. If I was told that one of the characters had domestic abuse in their past, I would have been able to guess who it was on the first try.
Giving all four of the main characters their own stories was rather nice. It really changed up the pacing of the story - and for the better, in my opinion. Sometimes we just need a character-driven novel, and this delivers. No aliens, no monsters, just humans being humans. And the best part is that we get to see character growth on an individual level with everybody.
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