It took me three or four tries to get into The Expanse. Something about Corey’s writing style makes me bounce off his stories, even though they’re worth reading. I didn’t bounce off The Mercy of Gods, but I had to push myself to keep reading a few times.
The plot is amazing. It’s a first contact story where the brightest of humanity are kidnapped by a highly advanced alien species.
To get to that part, you have to wade through a lot of uninteresting political drama on a planet that stops being relevant after the first quarter of the book.
The characters are layered and interesting, but there are so many that I found myself relieved every time the number got reduced, usually through some kind of accident (mostly murder by aliens).
I’m invested now and looking forward to the second book, but this should have been easier to enjoy.
