TP: Raise the Dawn by DRGIII Review Thread (Spoilers!)

[rfmcdpei]

One note.

Praetor Kamemor is a character I really, really like.

[Elias Vaughn]

I agree with that sentiment.

[shanejayell]

rfmcdpei wrote:

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Where in Canada are you? Here in Toronto i got Raise the Dawn just yesterday.

Vancouver, BC.

Amusingly the official Chapters site says it's not released, yet it ALSO says copies are in certain stores. WTF...?

Will hopefully have it soon.

[Patrick O'Brien]

Two days until it downloads to my kindle

[rfmcdpei]

shanejayell wrote:

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Vancouver, BC.

Amusingly the official Chapters site says it's not released, yet it ALSO says copies are in certain stores. WTF...?

Will hopefully have it soon.

In many cases, books arrive at the store well ahead of their scheduled release date. In only a few cases, though, are books that arrive ahead of their scheduled release dates held back from the floor--usually huge titles, most famously the Harry Potter novels, but other hardcover betsellers.

[dmgutierrez]

Ran out and bought it at my local Barnes & Noble last night.

Without giving anything away, it's definitely a nice coda for a few characters and great step in a new direction for others.

[JD]

Coda? So does that mean we can expect some deaths?

[dmgutierrez]

I wouldn't say that. And that's not me being evasive. I just meant that it's good to see a resolution. I like endings. And I like to see it when a character's arc concludes.

[rfmcdpei]

JD wrote:

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Coda? So does that mean we can expect some deaths?

The biggest death--one that was probably inevitable, given what she had done in the two books of the duology--was that of Sela. Indistinguishable from Magic brought out for me the extent to which Sela was a tragic figure, a very talented individual forever caught in the guilt of the moment when, as a very young girl, she screamed in terror and doomed her mother to execution. She was just never able to get past that moment, never able to process things. There's an irony in that it was the threat of being sent to Earth as a prisoner that made her take her own life.

Tomalak seems to have been removed from the board indefinitely. (Imprisoned on Earth by the Federation, left there by the displeased Praetor to make a point.)

At the other end of the moral spectrum, Kira seems to be with the Prophets, now. The Prophets also seem to have taken an extended vacation from the realm of the linear--unsurprising, the way their home kept getting abused.

[Mage]

Yay, ordered it, now gotta wait till this weekend and avoid this topic like the plague, since in the PoN topic, someone just basicly spoiled the entire ending without using any spoilertags. Not going to risk that this time.

[Wally]

rfmcdpei wrote:

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SPOILER TEXT

This is torture. I've got 1 more day until I get my copy. So tempting to peek into the spoiler text.

[E-DUB]

I must say that I find it ironic that the first book since the destruction of DS9 reads like it might have been an episode of the series. It was like seeing some old friends again.

(As for Sela, I always wanted to see her find out that her origin wasn't quite what she thought. IE: That Tasha was impregnated involuntarily specifically to produce a Romulan-Human hybrid, sort of Romulus's answer to Spock. No that doesn't happen in the book and I'm only mentioning it because now it won't.)

[Sho]

So ... is the station really gone?

[rfmcdpei]

Sho wrote:

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So ... is the station really gone?

It's utterly shattered. The central core has been destroyed by the exploding reactors, while the outer rings and connecting corridors have been cast off into space by the explosion. Fortunately the emergency bulkheads allowed nearly six hundred people to ride out the explosion on the station, and the command staff in Ops was rescued by a runabout making a run with transporters, but, yes.

Construction on a new Deep Space Nine begins almost immediately thereafter.

[Halliwell]

rfmcdpei wrote:

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The biggest death--one that was probably inevitable, given what she had done in the two books of the duology--was that of Sela. Indistinguishable from Magic brought out for me the extent to which Sela was a tragic figure, a very talented individual forever caught in the guilt of the moment when, as a very young girl, she screamed in terror and doomed her mother to execution. She was just never able to get past that moment, never able to process things. There's an irony in that it was the threat of being sent to Earth as a prisoner that made her take her own life.

Tomalak seems to have been removed from the board indefinitely. (Imprisoned on Earth by the Federation, left there by the displeased Praetor to make a point.)

At the other end of the moral spectrum, Kira seems to be with the Prophets, now. The Prophets also seem to have taken an extended vacation from the realm of the linear--unsurprising, the way their home kept getting abused.

Really? WTF? First Captain Janeway and now Captain Kira? I guess the novelverse is going to kill every strong female lead we've come to know and love except for Dax. 10 Captain Daxs are not worth 1 of Kira. I'm sick of the Dax as captain worship.

ETA: And the station we love.