Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Beltelota. You know we're the officially unofficial podcast for all things the expanse the series and now we're gonna be talking to the novels I

Have ripped through the final three books the short stories the final short story the apolog through the series sins of the father and I've been I've been really championed at the bit

To talk with Jim about it and he is being a pokey little puppy. So I've recruited our buddy Pete Peppers

To talk the expanse because he's seen it all Pete say hi to everybody

Hey guys, I'm Pete

I'm going to be here talking about this today. Yeah, no, I'm excited because I was just explaining before we started recording that I

I haven't talked to any like no one in my life has done anything but seen the series. I try to get my kid to read it with me

My wife is reading other things

None of my friends have seen anything past the series so like you it's you and me man. We're gonna get through this

Yeah, I thought we could we because I know some people are like is this gonna be a spoiler fest

We are going to spoil stuff but for the first five or ten minutes we're gonna give like our general opinion

So if you want to know like is it worth reading the books? Is it worth reading the final three books?

How does the series in in general like quality wise? We'll start we'll start there. So that's not good

Sounds good to me

so

If if you've got book readers out there they've read the first six books

I think one of the things that they they want to know is do they feel the final three books?

Do they feel of a piece or maybe for just a show watch or only do the final three books this final trilogy?

Does it stack up in terms of quality to the first six books or is there a noticeable dip in quality or interest or

What what's your opinion on that?

I mean, I think that it's a pretty natural progression from the beginning to the end and I I actually

Prefer these three books as a group, you know as a trilogy working together

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