#The expanse book 2 series

This is a novel written with to a well-thought-out storyboard where every scene has a purpose. One of the strengths of both books is how well written each scene is. Yet again we have the humanity under threat from the protovirus and ruthless amoral businessmen but this time the governments of Earth and or Mars seem to be involved and its possible that the protovirus has an agenda of its own. Between them, those things are twisting him into someone he doesn’t want to be. Except this version of Holden is carrying the scars from the first book and living with the compromise he made with the OPA. Make just enough changes to the winning formula to exciteĪs with the first book, we have Holden tilting at windmills and launching himself and his crew on a quest to save the girl. I’ve come up with three rules the authors seem to have followed to make “Caliban’s War” work so well.ġ.

#The expanse book 2 series

I think “Caliban’s War” managed to navigate its way through all those challenges, It then exceeded my expectations by keeping me emotionally engaged all the way through.Īfter I’d set the book aside, let myself recover, ordered the next book in the series and taken a breathe, I kept coing back to HOW this had been achieved. With a series on the scale of “The Expanse” you literally need to keep expanding the scope and deepening the complexity of the plot while somehow keeping a human focus. The second book doesn’t have the advantage of being new and unknown so the world-building has to continue and surprise has to be introduced along the way. You have to walk the line between keeping continuity of plot and characters without simply repeating the first book with a slightly different problem set. It’s tough coming up with a sequel to a book as impressive and successful as “Leviathan Wakes”.