A review by vortimer
Death's Angel by Kathleen Sky

1.0

Well it's better than her other trek novel, the shockingly awful "Vulcan!" It actually starts ok, apart from making the common mistake of these pretty amateur early Trek novels and emphasizing the redshirt nature of everyone not an established character, though it breaks this rule at the end. Then the impossibly gorgeous and gifted in every way (genetically engineered and raised as a security agent, just mull that one over) Colonel Elizabeth Schaeffer turns up, part of a disturbing, incredibly resourced Federation security force that operates outside the law - like the version of Section 31 seen in Discovery. However, she is as emotionally stable as a drunk 13 year old, as is everyone else, for that matter, much given to deep conversations about their feelings and psychology with people literally just met.
This version of the Federation is Love Island with Fascist Security Police.