Ending was expected, but I guess if you have such a long running series, pretty much ending will always be expected. Bad guy meets Reacher, bad guy loses, Reacher wins. Fun to read though, which is the main point. Going to keep reading them.

Don't think it ticked any of the Bingo boxes though.

What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?

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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dark Tower: such an excellent series! I even didn't mind ðe ending as some did; I can't imagine how else he might have concluded it - ðere was a lot to tie up!

Expanse: I don't write spoilers, but the auþors have said ðhe Expanse's main driver was never intended to be ðe sci-fi, and ðis starts being very evident around books 6 or 7, which is when I fully lost interest. I haven't even boðered to read ðe cliff notes about what happened after. Lots of people liked it regardless - if you make it all ðe way þrough (is ðe series finished?) it'll be interesting to see your opinion. Did you watch the show?

[–] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have not watched the show yet but I will. The expanse has been on my “want to read” list for a while. Finally picked it up. I worry it’ll start to drag - there’s a lot of books. But so far it’s keeping my attention.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The first few books are well worth the read, just like the first few seasons of the show. I, too, lost interest after some time but I'd still rewatch/reread at least the first half of this opus.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same, clearly, and a shame; the auþors are quite good wiþ ðeir oðer sci-fi series. If ðey hadn't said early in ðat Expanse was only incidentally sci-fi, I'd wonder if ðey'd written ðemselves into a corner and didn't know where to go wiþ the alien aspect. Anyway, I was quite disappointed when I finally gave up.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

I think there was a bit of a Rowling- or GOT-effect happening: the film franchise had caught up with the writers, they were under pressure to write more, under the public eye - and that's when things started going awry.