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mikjrank's review
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
adaora_ble's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This book started off so well ðŸ˜
It had all the adventure and the stakes and the characterisation of a classic SG-1 adventure and then it all fell apart in the second half. It got repetitive and boring and just downright depressing. It took so many interesting concepts and ideas and moral debates and quandaries and then just did nothing with them. I feel like I'm a book where Daniel Jackson is front and centre there needs to be more debates about the ethics of some of their actions especially since the characters seem to only briefly think about them when there was the time and scope to get deeper into it. I think one of the great things about Sci-fi is that it likes to take societal expectations and challenge them, looking at them from the outside in (even if we are bias) The Orville does it, Star Trek and Star Wars does it and Stargate does it but just not in this.
Also another problem with spinning off a show into a book series with different writers, Sam Carter felt very much out of character for most of the book but I'll write that off because they were in a very stressful situation and she'd been injured. You can also really feel the writers trying to slot it into the existing TV canon without affecting anything too much but I won't hold that against them.
All and all a good concept, probably would have been amazing if it had been in the show and limited to 45 mins instead of trying to drag out the back half into a 300 page book when it probably only needed 200.
It had all the adventure and the stakes and the characterisation of a classic SG-1 adventure and then it all fell apart in the second half. It got repetitive and boring and just downright depressing. It took so many interesting concepts and ideas and moral debates and quandaries and then just did nothing with them. I feel like I'm a book where Daniel Jackson is front and centre there needs to be more debates about the ethics of some of their actions especially since the characters seem to only briefly think about them when there was the time and scope to get deeper into it. I think one of the great things about Sci-fi is that it likes to take societal expectations and challenge them, looking at them from the outside in (even if we are bias) The Orville does it, Star Trek and Star Wars does it and Stargate does it but just not in this.
Also another problem with spinning off a show into a book series with different writers, Sam Carter felt very much out of character for most of the book but I'll write that off because they were in a very stressful situation and she'd been injured. You can also really feel the writers trying to slot it into the existing TV canon without affecting anything too much but I won't hold that against them.
All and all a good concept, probably would have been amazing if it had been in the show and limited to 45 mins instead of trying to drag out the back half into a 300 page book when it probably only needed 200.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Confinement, Ableism, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Genocide, Classism, Drug abuse, War, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery
beckylouise2904's review
3.0
I can't say I was overly engaged by the story - I am not a huge fan of the Aris Boch character in the show so I anticipated that I wouldn't perhaps enjoy this novel. It's not a great story but not terrible, and little too descriptive in places - I struggled through to the end which was a little flat to be honest.
ki4eva's review
4.0
Interesting story. Characters were true the TV show and this book could fit right into the seventh season. Like reading the description of Aris Boch home world.
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