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gingerreader99's review against another edition
3.0
I've never been a huge Voyager guy, this was good and a fair way to cap off the 4 "Furies" novels. I do appreciate Captain Janeway and Ensign Kim though specifically of the VOY crew. Special shoutout to the appearance of LT. Redbay that was pretty cool even if I expected him to die by the end.
dina_s's review against another edition
4.5
Loved this book. In my opinion, overall this series of four had a strong opening with the TOS book and a strong conclusion with the VOY one. The two books in between were sadly a bit underwhelming. The TNG one really caught the vibe of the TV series which isn't my favourite show by far and with the DS9 book I felt the pacing was off. Took a long time for it to get started but the story very cool.
This book series was fucking cool. I love that it spanned al the star trek franchises at the time and tied it up in a way that felt true to their franchises and felt deserving of such a (creative/cool) horrifying villain.
This book series was fucking cool. I love that it spanned al the star trek franchises at the time and tied it up in a way that felt true to their franchises and felt deserving of such a (creative/cool) horrifying villain.
ladyvictoriadiana's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
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? It's complicated
4.25
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Graphic: Slavery
bory's review against another edition
2.0
I gave this a try last year and I ended up DNF'ing it. For whatever reason, a couple of day ago I decided to give it another go and actually managed to finish it. It's... not great.
Like most Voyager books written by authors not named Christie Golden or Kirsten Beyer, The Final Fury fails to accurately portray the character, as we know them from the show. Now, this is probably at least partially due to the The Final Fury being written a little under a year into the show's original run. Not that many episodes for Dafydd ab Hugh to get a proper feel for the crew of the NCC-74656. But then again, The Murdered Sun, Christie Golden's first foray into the Star Trek universe, preceded the Final Fury and Golden did an excellent job at writing Janeway and co.
I would have been more willing to excuse ab Hugh's many mistakes, like, for example, saying that Janeway could have been Starfleet's best chief engineer had she not become a captain - Kathryn Janeway, while indubitably a competent engineer, was a science officer before she switched to the command track, if the book was fun. It's not. The Final Fury is way too dense, and way too clunky. The ending is both too convenient, in that it allows the Voyager crew to wash their hands of the ordeal guilt-free, and grossly unsatisfying. So we just leave these ancient terror masters of the Alpha Quadrant to just float in space, cosmos know where? Okay.
The idea of genetic memory is an interesting one, but it was not well executed.
This is not the first ab Hugh Star Trek book I've read. Fallen Heroes, a DS9 novel, also fails at accurately porting the characters from its mother series. Overall, from what I've seen, ab Hugh does not write Trek well, and I will not be reading any more of his book in this universe.
Like most Voyager books written by authors not named Christie Golden or Kirsten Beyer, The Final Fury fails to accurately portray the character, as we know them from the show. Now, this is probably at least partially due to the The Final Fury being written a little under a year into the show's original run. Not that many episodes for Dafydd ab Hugh to get a proper feel for the crew of the NCC-74656. But then again, The Murdered Sun, Christie Golden's first foray into the Star Trek universe, preceded the Final Fury and Golden did an excellent job at writing Janeway and co.
I would have been more willing to excuse ab Hugh's many mistakes, like, for example, saying that Janeway could have been Starfleet's best chief engineer had she not become a captain - Kathryn Janeway, while indubitably a competent engineer, was a science officer before she switched to the command track, if the book was fun. It's not. The Final Fury is way too dense, and way too clunky. The ending is both too convenient, in that it allows the Voyager crew to wash their hands of the ordeal guilt-free, and grossly unsatisfying. So we just leave these ancient terror masters of the Alpha Quadrant to just float in space, cosmos know where? Okay.
The idea of genetic memory is an interesting one, but it was not well executed.
This is not the first ab Hugh Star Trek book I've read. Fallen Heroes, a DS9 novel, also fails at accurately porting the characters from its mother series. Overall, from what I've seen, ab Hugh does not write Trek well, and I will not be reading any more of his book in this universe.
federsturm's review against another edition
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
madisonreadsbooks's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
amyz001's review against another edition
4.0
Great stuff! Easily my favourite of the Furies series (although I may be slightly biased) and possibly of all the Star Trek books I've read so far. Epic, exciting and well written and paced. The characters mostly all had their part to play - and with a lot of the focus on my favourite trio Torres, Paris and Kim I was very happy! B'Elanna was really well written, and I identified with a lot of her insecurities. The action and battles were epic and kept me engaged which is often not the case when I read these kinds of scenes. I was truly engrossed the whole way through. I really liked how they connected the story directly to the previous TNG novel.
frakalot's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this book more than the others in the series. I think each book has been better than the last. And overall I have enjoyed the series.
The techno-babble was at an impressive crescendo in this one and you could definitely sum this one up by parodying the Alice in Wonderland quote that was used in the story; I think we believed at least 6 impossible things before the end of The Final Fury!
The techno-babble was at an impressive crescendo in this one and you could definitely sum this one up by parodying the Alice in Wonderland quote that was used in the story; I think we believed at least 6 impossible things before the end of The Final Fury!
djwudi's review against another edition
2.0
Almost exactly a year ago, I read a novel based on the Doom video game series ([b: Knee-Deep in the Dead|222149|Knee-Deep in the Dead (Doom #1)|Dafydd ab Hugh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389233703s/222149.jpg|215136]), and was soundly unimpressed; it was about what you'd expect from such a project, little more than a small group of people running around a hellish maze being chased by demons.
This Trek novel, by the same author as that Doom book, has large sections that are little more than a small group of people running around a hellish maze being chased by demons.
Well, I guess this author knows his strengths....
Between that unfortunate (if, admittedly, somewhat amusing) similarity, and this book being a Voyager novel (my least favorite of the first four Trek series), and this book being one of the earlier Voyager novels, set in the first year or so of their journey, when the characters were all still developing...it was a drag. If it wasn't the last book in a four-book crossover series, I'd likely not have bothered. But I'd read the first three, so I slogged my way through this one. And now I can go on to something else.
This Trek novel, by the same author as that Doom book, has large sections that are little more than a small group of people running around a hellish maze being chased by demons.
Well, I guess this author knows his strengths....
Between that unfortunate (if, admittedly, somewhat amusing) similarity, and this book being a Voyager novel (my least favorite of the first four Trek series), and this book being one of the earlier Voyager novels, set in the first year or so of their journey, when the characters were all still developing...it was a drag. If it wasn't the last book in a four-book crossover series, I'd likely not have bothered. But I'd read the first three, so I slogged my way through this one. And now I can go on to something else.
octavia_cade's review
adventurous
medium-paced
3.0
This book takes place very early on after Voyager arrived in the Delta Quadrant; it seems as if they've been there only a matter of months. I can't be bothered to look up the date of publication, but it seems as if it were written, as well as set, early on in the show's run, because the characterisation is a little off in places. This actually works to the benefit of one character, as Neelix, when featured, come across as a great deal more competent than he ever appeared in the show. If only this presentation of him had been the norm!
The Final Fury has primarily an action storyline that works fairly well, I think, although the ending is a bit weak. It took a while to get going as well, but by about a third of the way in I was solidly engaged and stayed that way until the end. I think what I'm most struck by, though, is the tone - especially in that first third. There, it almost felt like a sort of bastard mash-up of Star Trek and the Black Library. I actually looked up the author to see if he'd ever written for them, but no. It was a bit of an uncomfortable mix, at times; I love the Trek franchise because it is so ultimately hopeful, and because it works to find commonalities between species. The first book in this mini-series did that very well, if ultimately tragically, but it seems to have dropped off entirely here.
The Final Fury has primarily an action storyline that works fairly well, I think, although the ending is a bit weak. It took a while to get going as well, but by about a third of the way in I was solidly engaged and stayed that way until the end. I think what I'm most struck by, though, is the tone - especially in that first third. There, it almost felt like a sort of bastard mash-up of Star Trek and the Black Library. I actually looked up the author to see if he'd ever written for them, but no. It was a bit of an uncomfortable mix, at times; I love the Trek franchise because it is so ultimately hopeful, and because it works to find commonalities between species. The first book in this mini-series did that very well, if ultimately tragically, but it seems to have dropped off entirely here.