#the comparable point of the plot happened before cibola burn even started. and excession has spent 275 pages on it

[stillwinterair]

Imagine if book/season 4 of The Expanse was almost entirely about the journey to Ilus, and the politics happening along the way as governments and ships race out toward it trying to be the first one to land and call dibs, and pretty much everyone is traveling in a straight line the entire book and every time anyone passes any location, the narrative halts for 15 pages to jump into a new POV character that is intensely familiar with that location and can thus pause what's happening to provide an in-depth explanation of it. That's Excession by Iain Banks.

#I'm gonna get through this book because at this point I am DESPERATE for the payoff #but dear lord this is so boring. #literally if we're gonna compare this to cibola burn because it's kind of similar in concept: #the comparable point of the plot happened before cibola burn even started. and excession has spent 275 pages on it #and I'm sure will continue to #this is one of the most miserable books I've ever slogged through