Reviews

Call to Arms by Diane Carey

jazin95's review

adventurous 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? No

5.0

I enjoyed this book. While reading this, I loved Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and felt myself falling back into that world. It was great.

A chapter viewed the perspective of the relationship between Vorta and Jem Hadar. It fleshed it out further than the tv programme ever could. I also enjoyed Martok and Worf's conversation about having Alexander on board. These were just some of the literary gems I found while devouring this book. 

eyan_birt's review

 

I mostly skimmed through-I like Diane Carey as an average example of EU authors in Trek world, but it wasn't gripping enough to make me read what was going on outside of the boundaries of the episode(s) this was based on. Saving my time and energy to more closely read different Trek books. 

octavia_cade's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

3.0

Volume two in this little mini-series, and that series is pretty disconnected so far. The two books both take place during the Dominion War, but otherwise they're largely focused on different crews doing different jobs. That's not a criticism on my part, just an observation: it's an interesting way to do a short series, and I'm enjoying it. 

This particular book is based on a series of DS9 episodes, and although it's been a while since I've seen the show, some of it's vaguely familiar. The part I remember most is the part that does not fit very well here, though. Worf's relationship with his son, Alexander, comes off in the book almost as a separate short story that's been tacked on at the end - a short story, furthermore, that lacks a satisfying ending. Given the constraints that Carey is working with, creating what is essentially a novelisation, this is hardly her fault, but I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to restructure the text version of the story, or even leave it out altogether or shift it to a different volume, rather than dump it all at the end.

Aside from that, it's a quick, fun read. Well, as fun as stories about wars going very badly can be... but then again, I do know the ending. 

d1910's review

2.5

Weird characterisation 

frakalot's review against another edition

4.0

Borrrrr-innnng... Nah, that's not actually true. This is really well written and offers some insights that are left out of the TV episodes. The highlight for me was taking a look into the thoughts of the Jem Hadar and I enjoyed Carey's depiction of how their thought processes might work.

But I'm not a fan of reading novelisations and I found myself mostly just looking forward to finishing it just so that I could get on with book 3 of the series.

Still a very well written novelisation and I'm sure that you will enjoy it more than I did.

sleeplessrivers's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

bdplume's review

4.0

Preferred the episodes from which it draws, but still worth my time.