I really don't want to ruin any of the surprises for those of you who have already read Leviathan Wakes. I've read back over my review here, and I realize I really haven't told you much about the actual story taking place in Caliban's War. (I've not yet found anyone or any website that confirms or denies further books in the series, so I'm sticking with trilogy as that's what I'd originally heard when I first got word of the series.) It does exactly what a second book is supposed to do – take the overall story deeper, give the characters a sense of deep dread and concerns about a happy ending, and leave the readers wondering just how in the world the final book will pull it all together and resolve all the complex subplots (that aren't resolved in CW). As many movies and books have shown us, everything will be cleared up by story's end.Ĭaliban's War is the second book in The Expanse Trilogy. They do take a rather large stretch early in the book with the introduction of something that one could argue breaks these conventions. I'm happy to report that the authors have continued to rely solely on believable human personalities and technology that is easily recognizable. Earth? Mars? The OTA? But a 600 page book isn't going to offer up a simple answer, and now CW is getting really good, with key players on all sides trying to figure out exactly what's going on with the surprise attack. But a horrific attack on both groups leaves Bobbie as the sole survivor, with both sides questioning who is responsible. It's boring, and Mars Marine Robert (Bobbie) Draper has found herself as one of the two peacekeeper groups stationed on Ganymede as Earth and Mars maneuver to try and maintain a position of ownership. When CW opens, two military forces (UN and Martian) are pulling a standard DMZ routine, staring at each other across a short distance on Ganymede.
A key resource that also happens to be an actual home to human beings is Ganymede, the chief food supplier for all the Belt and beyond.
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This has been going on since LW, but now that the OPA has legs and actual teeth (to an extent), the three power organizations are having to figure out how to best divvy up the remaining resources that are being hotly contested for control. First, the book has some really great political intrigue going on between Earth, Mars, and the OPA. What can I tell you about CW that won't spoil either book for you? Quite a bit, actually. I also hate it when the characters sit around talking about earlier books' events in Chapter 1 as a cheap tool to get a reader up to speed.) Thankfully, Abraham and Franck know they've got a lot of story to tell in Caliban's War and don't waste their readers' time filling in backstory.īut let's not ruin that surprise for any of you who might be checking out LW before moving on to CW. (I absolutely despise introductory chapters that try to take a 600 page book and condense it down to five or six pages of catch-up content.
Yes, there are discussions that briefly mention certain events from Leviathan Wakes in this story between a handful of major and minor characters, but the authors have avoided doing one of my least favorite things when it comes to book series, and that's summarizing or using weak dialogue early in a follow-up book to tell what should most obviously be told in the earlier books. Please note: If you haven't read Leviathan Wakes (LW), then the second book, Caliban's War (CW), is definitely not the place to start. Corey (the pen name for co-authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), the story was a 600-page world-building opener that set a stage where humans have moved out into the solar system, set up homes and workplaces among the asteroid belts and various moons of Jupiter, and established a fragile government of sorts that is still not completely recognized by the ruling bodies of Earth and Mars. Eight months ago I read and reviewed the first book in The Expanse Trilogy, Leviathan Wakes.
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