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A review by octavia_cade
Tunnel Through the Stars by John Vornholt
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
3.0
There's four books in this series. I read the first two of them back in mid-2022, I think it was, and then I must have got distracted, because I forgot about it entirely! I do dislike leaving a series unfinished, and I was quite enjoying it, so lucky for me the library still seems to have the last two volumes. Better hurry up and get to the last one quick before it disappears from the shelves.
Coming back to the series after a two year gap, and it's easy to get back into. Not quite standalone, but I didn't need to recall every detail from the first two books for this to make sense either. It's very closely focused on Picard and a small team of disparate individuals trying to sabotage a Dominion facility, so in many ways the wider war is relatively absent. It's a quick, adventurous read, likeable and fast-paced. I also enjoyed the very small subplot about a brief love interest of Riker's, notable not for the romance but for representation, in one person, of the psychological effect the war is having on Starfleet personnel. It's got to be a horrendous job, patching up ships so that more people can be sent out to die, so the (admittedly skimpy) exploration of this was a nice touch.
Coming back to the series after a two year gap, and it's easy to get back into. Not quite standalone, but I didn't need to recall every detail from the first two books for this to make sense either. It's very closely focused on Picard and a small team of disparate individuals trying to sabotage a Dominion facility, so in many ways the wider war is relatively absent. It's a quick, adventurous read, likeable and fast-paced. I also enjoyed the very small subplot about a brief love interest of Riker's, notable not for the romance but for representation, in one person, of the psychological effect the war is having on Starfleet personnel. It's got to be a horrendous job, patching up ships so that more people can be sent out to die, so the (admittedly skimpy) exploration of this was a nice touch.