Nemesis Games

Pataclop@bw.bierzilla.fr reviewed Les Jeux de Némésis by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

Les jeux de Némésis

5 stars

J'ai lu les 5 premiers tome de The expanse il y a quelques années déjà. Autant les 4 premiers je m'en souvenais plutôt bien, autant celui-là je l'ai redécouvert !
Pourtant l'intrigue est importante dans le cycle et les bouleversements sont immenses.
Bref, on ne s'ennuie pas, il se passe toujours plein de chose. Première fois que l'on voit nos 4 protagonistes séparés.
A part pour Holden, on découvre leur passé.
Les personnages ne sont pas figés et on les voit évoluer et c'est appréciable.

ridel reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

A Hall of Fame Recovery

5 stars

Am I dreaming? This is the novel that everyone's been waiting for since Avasarala finished verbally reaming everyone in Jovian Orbit at the end of Caliban's War. No - she's not back, but instead of three new character POVs that we must suffer through, we've been gifted with a focused novel centered on the four members of the Rocinante.

Namoi, Amos and Alex finally reach the spotlight. Them playing cards with Jim would have been a fine story on its own, but James Corey apologizes for the dud that was Cibola Burn with a story that seriously shakes up the status quo. Major changes to the solar system are forthcoming that feel organic, having arisen from the events of the previous novels. Our heroes do heroic things, showcasing four novels of character growth and also proving why they're the protagonists.

To put it succintly: Nemesis Games is what a …

Am I dreaming? This is the novel that everyone's been waiting for since Avasarala finished verbally reaming everyone in Jovian Orbit at the end of Caliban's War. No - she's not back, but instead of three new character POVs that we must suffer through, we've been gifted with a focused novel centered on the four members of the Rocinante.

Namoi, Amos and Alex finally reach the spotlight. Them playing cards with Jim would have been a fine story on its own, but James Corey apologizes for the dud that was Cibola Burn with a story that seriously shakes up the status quo. Major changes to the solar system are forthcoming that feel organic, having arisen from the events of the previous novels. Our heroes do heroic things, showcasing four novels of character growth and also proving why they're the protagonists.

To put it succintly: Nemesis Games is what a sequel should be. Full stop.

Highly Recommended.

Brad reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

The best

No rating

first time I’m re-reading the entire series and so far this is remaining my favorite of the saga.

Noisy Deadlines reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse 5)

Review of 'Nemesis Games' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I read this book after seeing the TV series, which is very unlike me. I remember the TV adaptation was great, and the book is even better.
This might be my favorite book in the series. The pace of the book is just perfect with POV chapters for each one of the Rocinante crew members: Holden, Naomi, Alex, and Amos. It’s a different setting as well because they are not inside Rocinante for a change, and they are not even in the same places for most of the time and that just shows how good these characters are.

Fulminata reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

Review of 'Nemesis Games' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Yet more major changes to the status quo of Humanity. Yet more increasingly credulity-straining coincidences that put the crew of the Rocinante in the middle of it all. Yet more good writing that makes it all work as an entertaining story anyway.

The subtle acknowledgment of differences between the books and the (at the time) newly airing TV show was funny. I had to go look up the air dates compared to the publication date to see if it was intentional. "How's your kid" indeed.

Xavier Roy reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #5)

Review of 'Nemesis Games' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I started this after watching a few episodes of The Expanse Season 5.

Compared to the previous stories, this is more of an exploration of the crew's individual forays in to a world they've left behind when they wound up together on the Rocinante.

Benjamin Hollon reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse 5)

Review of 'Nemesis Games' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This one was... different. And I'm not sure if I liked that. It showed an extremely different side of everything, and even put on hold most of the plotlines that had been developing in the first four books.

It was probably my least favorite to read, but definitely the most intriguing from the perspective of the overall storyline; it feels like the authors took a book to step back and set a few things right before they moved on into the later books (which I have not, as of writing this review, read yet) so they can make sure to get things right later, and I like that.

ALSO there are some wonderful all-new plotlines and characters thrown in now that make me excited to see what's coming next. So yeah, different, but it has a lot of potential, depending on how the later books progress.

Jens Finkhäuser reviewed Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse 5)

Review of 'Nemesis Games' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The Traveller campaign continues, this time with a split party. Of course in the end it joins up again, also adding other NPCs we've met over the course of the series.

It's kind of better than others, because it lends some depth to the characters. And it's worse because it contains very little plot.

Well, we'll see where the series takes us.