So What Are you Reading?: Generations

I finished up Book 1 of Daffyd Ab Hugh's Rebels trilogy. I just feel that his characterizations and dialogue are always over the top to the point of being cartoonish. I will attempt to solider throught the last two books. I was hoping the story of Kira working for Kai Winn on DS9 would be the main story but that wasn't the case. I'm also not understanding the cover of the book as it seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the story I just read.

Moving on to Voyager #5 Incident at Arbuk which I have really enjoyed so far. I am also working in a few episode novelizations from Star Trek 6 by James Blish.

 

Just finished 'The Conquering Sword of Conan', which was fantastic. Actually, all the Conan books are amazing. "Beyond the Black River" was a great story. I'm really looking forward to another movie now.

Now reading 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Terok Nor: Day of the Vipers'.

 

I assume it's a representation of the young Winn and her resistance colleagues during the Occupation.

 

Well that is what I expected when I started the book and they did have a brief narrative about Kai Winn and her relationship with an up and coming Gul. I'm hoping that story will be fleshed out more in the next two books.

I guess I didn't expect the bulk of the book to center around the Starfleet crew on some planet in the Gamma Quadrant.

 

I just started New Frontier: Gateways- Cold Wars. I hope its good cuz its pretty long.

 

Zilverdoorn from Raymond E. Feist.

 

Recently started "Einstein must die" by Chris Kohout.

It's an alternative history involving

Spoiler: spoilers

a war between the UK and the US, Zeppelins armed with nuclear bombs, giant tanks, Redcoats. Main characters include Nikola Tesla and Edison

So far it's interesting

 

I recall it being one of the best New Frontier novels.

 

Same here. I loved it.

Finally got The Crimson Shadow in, so..... goodbye!

 

Just finished Unity by S.D. Perry - so good! I was very pleased with how the storylines of the DS9 novels came together. I'm happily zipping through the "World of Ds9" books. They're easy reads. My plan is to read Warpath and then decide if I want to read the others. I've never been crazy about the Kira/Iliana Ghemor thing.

While I assumed I'd hop over and begin reading the Titan series, I may read the Terok Nor trilogy first. It sounds good and I can't get enough of those Cardassians!

 

Finished Serpents Among the Ruins by David R. George. Thank God somebody finally salvaged John Harriman's character. Great book.

 

Actually it was Peter David who did that in The Captain's Daughter (1995) and Enterprise Logs: "Shakedown" (2000). Serpents (2003) just took PAD's version of Harriman and expanded on it.

 

I've read PAD's The Captain's Daughter but all I remember was Chekov punching him. It has been awhile since I've read it. Never read "Shakedown" but I do like Harriman so I'll give it a try.

I liked the older version of Harriman in this book. He seemed like an intelligent and thoughtful officer and he also showed some serious "cojones" with that plan that resulted in the Tomed incident.

 

Spoiler: Captain's Daughter

His actual turning around takes place in the book. After losing young Sulu so quickly after Kirk he falls apart, his Admiral father comes onboard and basically takes charge. The Admiral is a by-the-book, my-way-or-the-highway officer who is basically about to blow up the Excelsior for disobeying his orders and leave Sulu on a quarantined planet because he deserves it. Younger Harriman steps up at just the right moment and takes back control of the bridge, earning back the respect of his, and the Excelsior's, crew.

Like Christopher said, it's a good saving point for the character that really works with what happened on screen.

 

"Renegade" by Gene DeWeese.

 

Just published my review of Una McCormack's The Crimson Shadow. What a book! Liked it immensely.

Right now I'm doing a DS9 relaunch re-read; I'm currently on Mission Gamma, Book One: Twilight by David R. George III. Unfortunately, I had Goodreads set to post to Facebook. Therefore, most of my friends had the fact that I am reading "Twilight" show up on their news feeds. Sigh. No sparkly vampires in this one, thankfully!

 

You're in for a good time on the DS9 novels lots of great stuff! They're pretty good!

 

Agreed! I loved them a ton the first time through. There's a great deal I didn't remember, though. I forgot just how great they were!

 

I finished up Vanguard with In Tempests Wake and then read Revelations and Dust. Now I'm about half way through The Crimson Shadow.

So far Crimson Shadow is a real page-turner. I'm loving the interaction between Picard and Garak. Overall I enjoyed Revelations and Dust, but large parts of the book left me wondering why we were spending so much time on these plot threads, that didn't seem to go anywhere. I'm guessing this is laying the groundwork for one of the other novels.

I liked the tidying up of some of Vanguard's plot threads in In Tempests Wake to set the stage for Paths of Disharmony. It would've been nice if we'd had a bit more of the vanguard characters, rather than predominantly the crew of the Enterprise, but overall I thought it was a good epilogue.