Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Cory (3 stars)

4th in the expanse series.  Space Opera gets traded for planetary battle with bizarrely fanatical evil corporate villain.  This novel is definitely filler, but it was still entertaining. Although....killer slugs? Really?

I didn't really like any of the characters in the spotlight in this book. It felt like Basia was another cookie cut from the Melba flawed-bad-guy mold, which was quite tedious to read. Elvi's overplayed infatuation with Holden was cringeworthy, as was the resolution: got laid, fine now.

I have no idea if the biological terms Elvi used were accurate at all, but I suspect biologists reading about her analysis and breakthroughs would have been face-palming at the pseudo science.

3 stars.