Michelle F's Reviews > Abaddon's Gate

Another fun space romp that I enjoy best when I don't think about it too hard.

Viewed as a whole, this book is very much about the journey as opposed to the destination..there's very little happening in the largest story arc. The protomolecule has set up a big ring in space and no one knows what it is, what it does, and what to do about it. The story focuses mostly on everyone who's trying to get out to it, for various reasons.

When I focus in on the ways the authors are changing up the movements and progressions through character growth, I'm appreciative, though I find that I also notice the redundancies more as well. This is most apparent to me in the new POVs who are just so very much the archetypes that they were based on, which seems to be an authorial schtick. I still liked them (except for Melba, who sucked), but they ultimately felt unrealized because they were just too tropey.

But I burned through this volume easily and happily. I was fully entertained and I want to keep on with the story. At this point, I'm not asking for any more from this series than the good time that I am already getting. That's enough for me.