The only exception is Dmitri Havelock, Miller’s former partner. One slightly intriguing species is a rather underwhelming achievement when you have a whole planet to play with! Once again, the novel is populated with one-dimensional and redundant characters, for whom I honestly don’t care and, in the result, I am unable to root for them. The new world on the other end of the Universe resembles boring parts of Earth so much that there’s literally no space for awe or amazement. So what went wrong?įirst of all, the majority of Cibola Burn is boring. Brave new world, completely different flora and fauna, lots of opportunities to show all the flaws and virtues of humanity and all the lures and dangers of another, faraway planet. Plus, the planet was morphed by the previous owners to a truly frightening extent and right now goes through some serious system failures resulting in half of the planet literally blowing up and flooding the second half where the first human settlement is located.
On the surface of the planet wait for him all those angry miners with almost unlimited access to explosives, together with a cartoon villain who doubles as a head of security for the scientific expedition, and, of course, a really unsettling apparition who evidently wants something from Holden.
Once again, Holden is over his head in trouble. And that’s precisely where Holden and Rocinante come into play. Obviously, this new Wild West needs a sheriff, and fast. Galactic ships on the orbit, armed forces down the gravity well, and lots of very frustrated people who think they can do whatever they damn well please. When humanity gets a chance to reach the stars, every single living soul wants to squat on the same rather uninteresting planet and fight for scarce resources. Of course, inevitable fight ensues and bodies drop dead right and left.
This wouldn’t be a problem, if not for a scientific expedition sent by a big bad Earth corporation, which goes to exactly this same world. Well, not entirely wrong – there are moments when Cibola Burn gets the breath and panache of the first two installments, but these are few and far between.īut let’s start from the beginning – where, in the light of the big events ending the previous book (which I won’t detail here )), passengers from an old decrepit ship fly to a habitable world and, in violation of all international laws, settle there. I’ve mentioned before that the fourth installment in the Expanse series gets better than the terribly weak third.
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