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wondawilson's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
snazel's review against another edition
Okay so I read this one hoping that it would make me like Lorca, because of spoilers about our meeting him in the show. It didn't really do that. And I almost gave up on the book entirely multiple times just cause it wasn't my jam. It didn't really read like what I think of as a Trek book, it didn't capitalize on the aesthetic and technobabble and determined optimism of that setting, and it kept giving space to people with views like "really kodos went too far but he had some good points about how everything bad started with the refugees". Not my jam.
HOWEVER. The last like, fifth of the book? I'm very glad I kept reading. The entire sequence with Georgiou and the corps of engineers hacker at the spaceport was deliciously Trek, and the book stuck the landing SO well. (Possibly it stuck it so hard because I wasn't really invested in the middle or beginning of the book, so when I did invest I did so with enthusiasm, but anyways. Those last two ending sequences ahhhhh.)
HOWEVER. The last like, fifth of the book? I'm very glad I kept reading. The entire sequence with Georgiou and the corps of engineers hacker at the spaceport was deliciously Trek, and the book stuck the landing SO well. (Possibly it stuck it so hard because I wasn't really invested in the middle or beginning of the book, so when I did invest I did so with enthusiasm, but anyways. Those last two ending sequences ahhhhh.)
em_being's review against another edition
2.0
A miserable book about how much Gabriel Lorca is the baddest cop in the Federation and how he and Good Cop Phillipa Georgiou work together to fail to do some plot stuff referenced offhand in an episode of TOS.
stealingsilver's review against another edition
3.0
It was alright. Not a great storyline or character development. It paints Lorca as a Phsyco mental health case
momopeach's review against another edition
4.0
It was enjoyable reading more about Tarsus IV which has been one of the plot points for one of my favorite TOS episodes since it gave us more insight to Kirk before the USS Enterprise. I was hoping that a future movie or novelization would touch on how the alternate Kirk would react during the events of "The Conscience of the King" episode; however, since that seems unlikely I appreciated the look into the immediate aftershocks of the Tarsus IV Massacre.
rcollins1701's review against another edition
3.0
That time during a pandemic when I read a book about Governor Kodos executing half his colonists to preserve resources during a famine…
Really helps me sleep at night.
Really helps me sleep at night.
airforcesister's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5