"'If your next word is 'sorry,' ' he said, 'I'm going to hop over there and kick your ass.'"
Abaddon's Gate picks up where Caliban's War left off, with James Holden and Co. working odd jobs aboard their ship the Rocinante. Free of his former association with the OPA and looking forward to profitable ventures in the near future, Holden yet again finds himself caught up in interplanetary politics after the Protomolecule creates a wormhole on the other side of the solar system.
I liked the beginning and end of this book, but the middle section was a real slog for me. Unlike the first two installments in S.A. Corey's sprawling series could have been a lot shorter.
I did, however, enjoy the inclusion of Anna, a new character who adds a religious dimension to humanity's encounter with the unknown. I think she poses some interesting questions throughout the book, even if some of the characters' attitudes toward her seem a little too charitable at times.
Is Abaddon's Gate terrible? No, I wouldn't say that it is, but it's certainly not as good as the first two books and it effectively put me off reading the rest of the series. It could be that Abaddon's Gate is the "Children of Dune part" of The Expanse series, and that the following books are better, but I'm in no hurry to find out whether or not this is the case.
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