Tiamat's Wrath: The Expanse, Book 8 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

James S. A. Corey (Author), Jefferson Mays (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher)

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The eighth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series.

Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.

In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.

At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortázar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrigue, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father, the emperor, doesn't guess.

And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rear-guard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime.

Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule - and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose - seems more and more certain. Because against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough....

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19 hours and 8 minutes
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James S. A. Corey
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Jefferson Mays
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26 March 2019
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English
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Recorded Books
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B07GFR1ZV7
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	19 hours and 8 minutes
Author	James S. A. Corey
Narrator	Jefferson Mays
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Audible.com.au Release Date	26 March 2019
Publisher	Recorded Books
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07GFR1ZV7
Best Sellers Rank	3,581 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 16 in Space Exploration Science Fiction 28 in First Contact Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 121 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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KEITH STEVENSON

One of the strongest books in the series

Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2019

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James SA Corey postponed the release of Tiamat's Wrath so they could concentrate on getting it right. It was worth the wait. Persepolis Rising (book 7) was a difficult book, bringing in a significant time jump for the lead characters and ending on a huge downer with the crew of the Rocinante fragmented: some captured, some on the run. One of the strengths of Tiamat's Wrath is how these characters - isolated and in difficult circumstances - pull themselves up to a position where they can strike back. This is one of the strongest books in the series with brilliant plot and character reveals throughout.

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Keith Hurst

Another riveting chapter

Reviewed in Australia on 26 September 2019

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I have read all of the novels in the Expanse series. I have also read several series by other authors. Expanse is in another universe(pun intended). The character detail is unique, the stories are intriguing, the action is non stop and at the end of every novel I scream for more. This novel is one of the best. I rate it 5 stars. The death of one of the main characters is handled with sensitivity and in the end we know that the story is just beginning. The introduction of Theresa is another teaser and only a taste of what is next to come.

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Chromeronin

Slower plot, a new protagonist, exploding blackholes!!

Reviewed in Australia on 30 June 2019

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Science Fiction the way I love it!! The plot is a little slower here, most of the action taking place on Laconia and in the resistance back in the Sol system, but it doesn't drag. What does it take to run an intergalactic underground, what happens when you win, or loose. What happens when the ants crawling around inside the machine try to bite the operator? The crew of the Roci have gotten much older, and less brash, and Holden appear to be broken in captivity. This book both made me laugh and cry out loud. As part of a series, this one wont make much sense unless you have been following from earlier on. However, if you haven't read this series and you like hard SF, start at the beginning!!

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Ralph Tamou

Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 9 June 2019

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Read every single book in the expanse loved every one of them,and wait with baited breath for the next one. Extremely well written and the concept is always rocket charged. I fly through the pages but as I come to the last chapters wishing i could slow down and let the book last longer as it’s a killer having to get off the Rocci and put my feet back on the ground long live the expanse

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ozcopilot

Fantastic Penultimate book in the series

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2019

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It took me a little while to get into this volume of the Expanse, but once I did, it was an incredible Big Dipper ride. It was so full of tension at times that when I tried to go to sleep I found my legs were aching! And sorrow and sadness - and hope too. I am soooo looking forward to reading the last one, but I will be really sad that it will all be over.

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great to see the bits reform

Reviewed in Australia on 1 December 2021

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Well told tale of relationships in a fraught world. Love hate loss. A swirl of strong emotion and violence.
The overlap of POV across chapters annoyed me, but it is bearable.

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PhillG

A continuation of an interesting story

Reviewed in Australia on 10 December 2019

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If you haven't read the rest of the series, this book will be a mystery. For those that have read the series, the characters have their own issues and situations to deal with - which makes for an interesting and different book to the others. I enjoyed it. Three of the main characters die - but die in line with their personality and so was not too jarring. The resurrection of one of the characters was a little odd and not explained enough to make it satisfying. This book ends by letting you know there is more to come - which is OK. I still don't know where the name 'Tiamat' comes from or why it is the title of the book.

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wintermute

up there with the best in series

Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2019

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as an sf reader for the last 40 years, the expanse stands up there with some of my favourite long sf series. this book had me riveted. it had everything, brilliant tension, favourite characters in new, life changing situations, a new enemy, and the promise of even more forbidding things to come.

i balk at having to pay so much for an electronic copy of a book.... but on this occaison, it was totally worth it. looks like i'll most likely be paying too much again, when the final volume in this standout sf series is delivered.

bravo!

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Stuart

Number 8 and still great...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2019

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In most Sci Fi series that I've read, things tend to head towards formulaic after a while. Same sort of bad guys, same mysteries, and the same (usually violent) solutions. The Expanse has been a welcome exception. I've read the whole series to date, and I've seen the TV series (which is a bit different, but still recognisable) and its been uniformly great. Same characters, whom I've come to like a lot; the same universe - although it expands (see what I did there?) very considerably over the course of the novels - and hugely enjoyable character development. There's a few goodbyes in 8 that were necessary to the plot, but nothing is quite what it seems, and there's a good hook that makes me want to read number 9 NOW!!

Good book. You'll enjoy it!

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Michael Holmes

The Expanse Approaches Its Endgame

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2019

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Time has moved on and our heroes are older. The Empire decides to poke the Gods and has a hard time figuring out the results. Holden is imprisoned but plays politics when he can. Amos goes underground. Naomi, Alex and Bobbie plot and fight. Once again it's a story if interstellar intrigue and epic space battles. The plot arc moves on to set up the finale in the next book and so some mysteries remain. If you've followed the story so far, then you'll be delighted by this one. One tip though and I'm deadly serious here: if you've been skipping the short stories, then not only have you been missing out, but you absolutely need to read "Strange Dogs" before reading this book. To avoid spoilers I can only say that you'll know why when you get there and you'll be mentally thanking me for letting you know.

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JonT

A great ending....maybe?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2019

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As a big fan of the book series and the TV adaptation, I pounced on this the moment it came out - I'd intended to start reading it after I finished the book I was partway through, but I confess that as soon as I unpacked this I put the other one aside and jumped straight in to find out what was happening....

WARNING: some non-specific spoilers ahead for this book and the previous one in the series, hopefully nothing that would ruin it for any but the most fanatical of spoilerphobes, but well, you've been warned!

The previous (seventh) book in the series, Persepolis Rising, was both good and frustrating in equal measure - because it was the first half of a major two-book arc and ended on a very downbeat note, with our main characters scattered and the Bad Guys firmly in the ascendancy... very much the "The Empire Strikes Back" of the series. If Persepolis Rising is the series' TESB, then I guess Tiamat's Wrath is its ROTJ - the new book very successfully takes us from this low point to a very satisfying (to me, anyway) conclusion, but not without some great drama and very emotional losses along the way - let's just say that you can feel George R.R. Martin's stylistic influences here, with the two authors of the Expanse being part of his "writing circle".
There were a couple of moments that I felt smacked just a bit of Deus Ex Machina, without which the story would have had a very different conclusion, but I didn't think they justified dropping a star for - they don't jar badly enough to spoil the story.
You certainly get a feeling of the time that has passed in the characters' universe - we are now several decades from the events of the early books in the series; I am not sure whether this eighth book is the final volume in the story, but if it is then they will have left it at a solid and generally fan-friendly ending.... if there IS to be another book - or books - planned (and the very final line of TW does leave this door at least ajar!) then I feel that what comes next will have to introduce a significant number of new younger characters to continue the story....

All in all, very enjoyable and very highly recommended - but you really need to read the full series in order, or at the very least read the seventh book (PR) before this one.

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Treborus

OMG !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 April 2019

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If you've skipped book one - go - buy - enjoy ! my revues of those still stand . Those that have read the set - well "I" never saw THIS coming ! I won't revue this roller coaster story -except if at one point you've not got at least one tear rolling down your cheek ( you trying desperately to hide) as we follow our expanse "Family" into the vortex ...as I've said I've not loved a series like this since I found "The Lord of the Rings" in 71....strap in & brace for impact !

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Mr Peter C Doherty

Back on track

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2022

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A much better story this time but I feel the writers are hedging their bets about the Uber aliens and can’t seem to latch on to what they are in their omnipotence.

There is still bags of room for this series to go on for a very long time and I am beginning to tire a little just like we all did with GOT.

However you can’t fault the writing or the philosophical and scientific discussions that underpin it.

I genuinely recommend people to read this series - and completely forget the travesty that is the Expanse series on streaming.

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