Babylon's Ashes

This book was like [b:Nemesis Games 22886612 Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5) James S.A. Corey https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1407524221s/22886612.jpg 42456264] Part 2, it really wrapped up the unfinished business from the previous book. If they were together, it would make for a gigantic book, but that's really what it is.As with the previous books, I love the characters, the way they describe their future world, like details of how they move or use gestures that are visible with space suits. This book does a particularly good job of showing the human side of the key characters even more (through loss: Avarasarala, duty: Holden, love and morality: Pa; etc).I think this book contains both my favorite and least favorite battle scenes of the series or, in fact, any book I've read. My favorite was the first encounter with the Pella, it was intense and exciting. I love the details like Bobby's vision blurring because the acceleration was enough to squish her eyeballs. And for as great as that was, the second encounter was a huge disappointment. I always loved how accurate the physics were in the series, they didn't resort to magic like Star Trek and their inertial dampeners. Then, this last battle they used exactly that, alien magic, to get out of a sticky situation.Regardless, the book was still awesome and I definitely recommend the series.