Medina station is largely the same Medina station as earlier. The Belters/Transport union built a few new cities, which we see them lose most of anyway. However, it seems like it barely affected the rest of the setting at all. That tech spurt could not have taken less than decades. I think the thirty-year timeskip was necessary to make it somewhat plausible for Laconia to be able to surpass the rest of the colonies in tech, given that they were only a few thousand people while the Sol systems and the rest of humanity count several dozen billion. It's definitely not as good as the first two or of Nemesis Games, but it bodes well for the future storyline and getting the protomolecule/eaters dealt with in some way. Inaros was a really good character but a shitty villain in that you couldn't really sympathize with him, but Duarte honestly makes a ton of sense, is a strong leader with genuine empathy, and his final line is one of the baddest bad-ass lines we've had in a while. I really wish Clarissa had been a PoV for the whole thing, but her death was great.ĭuarte is a great antagonist, probably their best since Mao. It took me right out of the story to think that Naomi/Holden wouldn't change in 30 years, and it really was weird thinking Amos or Clarissa wouldn't. No one feels any different, save their physicality is apparently sorer and things creak more. The older characters barely changing in their personality or value works as far as getting us into the story, but breaks any sense of time moving forward. It's very reminiscent of Abbadon's Gate in structure and feel, complete with crawling over the Nauvoo/Behemoth, and that's not awesome.

The expanse persepolis