Review: A short back story for one of the major characters in The Expanse series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
I am starting to really appreciate the way that novelists are using novellas to build up back stories for larger series--in this case, for Corey's The Expanse series. Although one could read the major series without any of the novellas that are linked to those novels, these novellas provide a deeper understanding of some of the major (albeit secondary) characters. In this case, the novella describes the pre-space life of one of the four crew men from the Rocinante, and reading it led to powerful insights into the story of how this character became the person whom we see in the larger novel.I highly recommend reading this book after reading at least the second Expanse novel. (I read it after reading the third.) It's a great example of powerful writing, fascinating characters, and historical information about the status of the solar system before the time of the Expanse novels.