#Tiamat's Wrath

[youwontbelievethethingsiveread]

Cortazar is most definitely awful, but he's also entertaining (as long as you're not one of his victims). Everyone's favourite sociopathic professional vivisectionist ✌🏻

[mobiusstripper]

Muskrat with a repair drone for Inktober because why not

[gunkreads]

Tiamat's Wrath is the narrative equivalent of a fighter helping the person they just knocked out back up to their feet so they can knock them out again. Like you cannot tell me this will end well. Penultimate books ending with found family reunions are just Always tragedy setups. I'm saying this in desperate hope I'll be proven wrong, but not-so-secretly I really want Leviathan Falls to hurt me.

[enek-jokanen]

I really like this scene.

[mikimeiko]

Holdeeeeen <3

[nitrousheart]

Everyone Needs to Read The Expanse

I am screaming at how many people are sleeping on The Expanse books! It’s one of my favorite sci-fi series of all time especially the final three books. Persepolis Rising, Tiamat’s Wrath, and Leviathan Falls are masterclass examples of existential sci-fi. The final 3 books alone have:

1. Accurate depictions of PTSD and how it effects people differently.

2. Some of the best cosmic horror I have ever read. It nails the fact that the center of cosmic horror is not only horror of the unknown but its effect on humanity

3. This one is going to sound weird but, the entire main cast of characters are in their 60′s. While it sounds boring it allows for more through exploration of the fear of death, coping with the loss of loved ones, the joy of watching a new generation grow, the fear of repeating the mistakes your predecessors did, what happens after the day is saved, and the cycle of violence that power generates.

4. Just the lore and story telling itself is amazing. Using the terms: “The Dreamer,” “The Romans,” and “The Goths” to explain the ring space and the gates helped add to the almost mythical nature of what killed the gate builders.

5. The characters!!! Oh my g-d I adore the character writing in the final 3 books. In the first 2/3rd of the series James S.A Corey had an issue with writing almost more like the writing of a journal which lead to the characters sometimes falling flat. However in the final 3 books he really comes into himself as a writer and fleshes out all of the characters he neglected in the first 6 books while introducing some of the best characters yet.

6. I said it in number 3 but it deserves to be said again: the trauma and cycle of grieving the books explore from the death of a loved one/ watching a loved one die of a terminal illness is some of the best I have ever read. As someone who watched a parent die from Alzheimer’s; I can say that the way James S.A. Corey explores how you grieve for someone who isn’t even dead yet, and the lashing out that occurs from the feeling is amazingly well written. It’s accurate to the feelings I myself experienced and felt like it was written by someone who watched a loved one of their own die from a terminal illness.

Anyway!!! Go read The Expanse books I am begging you. If you like sci-fi, in depth world building, or mystery I’m going to recommend this series to you.

Thanks for coming to my TedTalk

[benedictusantonius]

[2023|89] Tiamat’s Wrath (2019) written by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck)

[damn-daemon]

Just finished Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse Book 8) and wow it is by far and away my favorite. The way the authors crafted this entire series is nothing short of stunning, and this novel really makes those forces collide well. Only a lot little upset that I'm on the last book, but I can't wait to see what it has in store!

[bornitereads]

Tiamat's Wrath - James S. A. Corey

The Expanse Book 8

Read: Apr 2023

This is the book where we start diving into some weird alien shit. We're going into full interdimensional science fiction conflict territory. There is another time jump but only a year or so. I will say that in this book Corey really decided to not be afraid of killing off characters. They really gave me some "omg no!" moments in this one. I particularly enjoyed that the course of human conflict did not fall away in the face of alien conflict. Although I guess it is debatable on how much the average person understood on what was going on. Maybe a lot though, but the people who did know, didn't stop fighting their human enemies. Which, honestly, is classic humanity. The return of Elvi from Book 4 was a happy surprise for me. I liked her character and she gets even better here. Plus there's a character death in this one that is so wild and yet so deserved that I am still thinking about it.

Info: Orbit; 2019

[darkangelofmists]

“The people who have power over you are weak too. They shit and bleed and worry that their children don’t love them anymore. They’re embarrassed by the stupid things they did when they were young that everyone else has forgotten. And so they’re vulnerable. We all define ourselves by the people around us, because that’s the kind of monkey we are. We can’t transcend it. So when they watch you, they hand you the power to change what they are too.”

― James S.A. Corey, Tiamat's Wrath

[thecollectorofawesomethings]

[youwontbelievethethingsiveread]

Oh Teresa 💔

[intergalacticgazette]

Rereading Tiamat's Wrath from The Expanse. Naomi is getting everyone ready to bring down Laconia!

I do get distracted reading it thinking how I would turn the stories into an age-of-piracy sea sailing AU. And how that would work in a DnD rpg aspect.

I’m bored and nosy. Please reblog this with the book you’re currently reading.

[number63liveblogs]

Thoughts on Tiamat’s Wrath

I really like Teresa. This is the second character who’s a teenager who has to get out of the way of their cult leader father in these books, and it’s just as fun the second time. The parallel between the kinds of fathers they were, and the kinds of societies they were building were really fun.

Now if they just met at some point...?

Of course, Teresa’s still in the middle of her realization that her father has done a horrible wrong towards her by raising her the way he did. There’s still space to fuck her character up.

It was also interesting to have a whole book with very minimal Holden. I think the authors wanted to keep his plan a secret, even though it wasn’t that important and the most relevant parts were guessable from what we saw of him and his actions.

But in any case, reading of the book was much more of a pleasant experience when compared to the previous one. Mostly because the main characters actually got some wins and the whole context was much further from all the atrocities I keep seeing in the news.

Now there’s one more book and one short story to go, let’s see how many aliens turn up.

[penstrokes]

SPOILERS for a book from 2019 but killing both Bobbie and Amos in the span of seven chapters is actually evil.

[mikimeiko]

Bobbie??? Is THIS actually the last book???