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  • Babylon's Ashes

  • Book Six of the Expanse
  • By: James S. A. Corey
  • Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
  • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (992 ratings)

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Babylon's Ashes

By: James S. A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
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A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.

The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets.

The colony ships heading for the 1,000 new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the embattled remnants of the old political powers call on the Rocinante for a desperate mission to reach Medina Station at the heart of the gate network. But the new alliances are as flawed as the old, and the struggle for power has only just begun.

As the chaos grows, an alien mystery deepens. Pirate fleets, mutiny and betrayal may be the least of the Rocinante's problems. And in the uncanny spaces past the ring gates, the choices of a few damaged and desperate people may determine the fate of more than just humanity.

©2016 James S. A. Corey (P)2016 Little Brown Book Group

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Another good read

Following on from the previous book Babylon's Ashes is another great book in The Expanse series. Different, in the same way all the books have different settings, it's every bit as good as the others.

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Excellent Story, but..

The Expanse series uses the word "gimbal" more than any other story series that exists.
The narrator started pronouncing it correctly, with a g, started twice pronouncing it with a J intermittently in the previous books and halfway through book six has now given up and is pronouncing it "jimbal" all the time.

It takes no effort to be consistent, even if you're wrong.

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excellent

best yet! this book delved deep into the politics of war. thoroughly enjoyed. loved it

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a bridging edition

not quite the non stop action and suspense of previous books in the series. but excellent writing and depth

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Seeming real people in exotic locations and situations

Returning to Sci-fi after a long hiatus in tech and trade reading, the tv series and now these books have been some of the best fiction I’ve ever read, let alone sci-fi.

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kind of boring

compare to the TV show i find the Books more interesting than the TV show except for this last book. It just feels like mostly filler. so that they can charge us $50.

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Proto what?

I'm really enjoying these books but I can't help but wonder about what's happening with the protomolecule. It was such an integral story feature of the first book everything else seems a bit like filler (albeit very good filler). That part of the story was integral for me, both terrifying and fascinating. Eros was utterly nightmarish.

What I love about these books though, is how the character arcs come together. And just when I think I'm totally uninterested in a character, I find myself wondering about them.

I'll continue reading..

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Bit slower than the previous titles but still good

Was a little slower and seemed to lose its way a bit. Jefferson Mays always gives a great performance, and if you're at this point in the series you aren't reading the reviews!

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Naomi and filip = boring times

Found this one to not be as engaging as the previous titles, the Naomi and Filip chapters almost feel like filler, I also don't find them to be very interesting at all, their motives are very trivial in the grand scale of the actual Expanse story and if anything slows down the story and takes you out of the immersion.

I can see why they are the most disliked characters whenever you google anything about them, glad I'm in the majority for this one.

Hoping the next book can redeem the energy for the rest of the series.

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Good but very slow

I’ve really enjoyed this series and plan to keep reading, but this one was a bit painful. It hovers between the politics of war and sci-fi without really being good at either, similar to the way “Abbadon’s Gate” did with religious views. It adds to the story/backstory but not in a way that justifies such detail

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