Rob

I didn't read the whole thing, so I'm not going to rate the collection. I only read the Dresden story: Mister Petty, which is actually a Goodman Grey story. It was fine, but nothing special and likely easily skippable. 3 stars.

Some of the subplots in this started slow for me, but things picked up as the book went along. I'm not really sure how they are going to wrap this series up in 3 books, but I'm excited to find out.

Jefferson Mays does his usual excellent job. He doesn't really do a variety of voices, but after 9 expanse books (plus the first in this series) I've just gotten used to him being the voice of James SA Corey books.

I thought this one started slow but picked up as it went along. It's probably my age but the teenage angst from both Olive and Darin got annoying at times, but not so much as to turn me off the book.

Overall I'm not enjoying this series as much as original one, but I am enjoying being back in the world again.

The audio books are good. I think both narrators work well for their character POVs.

It's been a while since I finished The Core and my memories of how that wrapped up are a bit fuzzy. I found the start of this book a bit slow, but once things got going it really picked up. I had picked up the this and the second book on deals but never got around to reading them. Now I've jumped straight into The Hidden Queen.

I'm generally not a huge fan of multiple narrators but for the 2 main POVs it made sense to do so and I thought both did a great job with their respective chapters.

I enjoyed this one more than the previous entry. Probably because it refocused on the elements of the series (the towers and magic progression) that have kept me continuing with the series. I don't recall as many infodumps (though they are present as always) and we got some really interesting plot developments that seemed to move the story forward.

The narration is excellent as always, and this series will remain an audio-only thing for me.

This felt a bit like DCC lite. Not as good, but it had some of the same plot points. It was different enough that I though it was worth reading though and found myself interested to listen whenever I had time.

I've really enjoyed Travis Baldree's narration of other series, and this book was no different. He always adds that little extra that makes doing the audio worthwhile.

This one started really slow for me, but once it got going it really sucked me in. I liked the world quite a bit and it was cool to see the Cosmere in the future. I'd really love a sequel, the book left me wanting to know what happens next, always a good sign.

The narration was very good. I'm not always a fan of multiple narrators, but it worked well with the story and POV swaps

Another solid entry in this series. After Battle Ground it was a bit of a change of pace. The events of this book take place over the course of a year (though more like 9 months). It feels like a transition book from the massive events of that book to whatever is coming next.

I mostly did this in audio, and James Marsters does his usual excellent job. I mixed in a few chapters from the hard cover I mostly buy to add to my collection. But it was nice to have the option to get in a bit more reading when my audiobook time for the day was done.

Looking forward to next one in this series. I'm glad we're getting more regular Dresden books again, but I'm also going to be sad when the series is done.