Kym

Oh boy, one of my favourites yet, makes me very excited for the finale, but I feel like a whole trilogy could come after it, so many questions and lore I want built up

One of the deepest hard sci-fi I've ever read. Good sequel too

There's a lot of detail and I like that perspectives skew the narrative.

Interesting concepts, a little difficult to follow for me, but enjoyable

Pretty decent, bit slow, enjoyable world building. I was warned that this is a bad book to start the series on. They were right. I actually started with Hydrogen sonata, and lost nothing of the introduction. These books appear to be somewhat standalone.

The Empire Strikes Back / Force Awakens of The Expanse.

Pretty fun standalone with some good sci-fi exploration.

I love anime, lots. There is a trope where the main character starts off weak and/or cowardly and stays that way for the entire series. I find that annoying. The main character of this book was the same. The worldbuilding was nice.

Amazing. It's so fun watching the universe change.

short and sweet, the best right hand turn in the series. a turning point for the series into something more concrete, the previous books felt like they were all just story-building up to this.

pretty similar to the book before, but not in a bad way, probably my least favourite as it has lots of filler, but still some good foreshadowing.

Turning tropes on their head, love the unique takes on standard fairy tales. Good start to the series.

Each book just gets better. Loved this one, really novel concepts, fun read.

Pretty damn good

Great fun, good humour

what a slog, and a terrible finish to the series.
I recommend stopping at the second book, and I almost did myself, because it had an amazing end. Between the bad translation and the terrible narration (which I didn't subtract a star for), I was bored out of my mind for the first half of this book.
It did get better, but nowhere near as good as the first two books, and apart from the hibernation journey throughout the book, nothing really stood out.

Real firefly vibes from this one, with darker undertones, and chrisjen... I love her now.

Probably two of the most interesting concepts I've ever encountered. The Dark Forest especially.

Some heavy scientific talk presented in a fairly easy to understand package, set against a sci-fi background. The personification of hard sci-fi. I would say that the characters were pretty average, but the scientific imagination brought the whole story up a few notches.
Really enjoyed the Chinese perspective as well.

A shift in storytelling method compared to the first two Discworlds made this book fresh and enjoyable.

Felt like a fantasy Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Some downright laugh out loud moments.

Amazing. Storytelling at it's finest. A nice predictable storyline with some good bends.

Fun ride, shitty destination.

super slow startup, i dropped this book in the first act, but for some reason i came back to it. From part 2 onwards, it was a blast to read. Still threw me off how little of the first book was referenced, but hey, more lore, less replay.

Freaking amazing ending to the series. It might just be my excitement, but this book was far better than the first, and better than the second. All the questions I had answered, some surprising and awesome wrap-ups of questions in the first two, and an even more in depth look into the magic system of Lev Grossman's world.