"Persepolis Rising" by James S. A. Corey

Give. Me. The. Aliens.

I've been waiting for it for at least three books now. The series started with "Omg, this blue goo turns people into ZOMBIES that VOMIT brown goo, and omg, it just built a ring that got us to a liminal space, OMG THE MOON MELTED," and now it continues into "Hey, I have a bigger gun. How about you guys just surrender, okay?"

I feel like book 6 wrapped up book 5, and book 7 set up book 8, which is a hell of a lot of wrapping up and setting up. I can only imagine how frustrating this should have been for the fans when the books came out. They had to wait years for two volumes of aftermath and precursors.

Anyway, the time jump feels like the authors decided to pull "an Asimov" on all of us. The characters are 80+ years old, and the age shows. The amount of unnecessary inner team violence and rising instability of the team might be a plot device to show us how everything is falling apart. However, whereas previously, the team felt tension when it was temporarily split, this time, it's only whining and sorrow.

To be honest, I don't know what to tell you. Let's move on to the eighth book already. I want to learn more about these aliens, which I haven't heard of in a few books.