Has anyone read any of the relaunch books?

[momrobare]

HI
So far I've read the first one...Dead of Winter...and I loved it. Unlike many on this board...Beverly Crusher was my favorite character on the show. And I have always been a Picard/Crusher shipper! So I just had to get my hands on this book as soon as I heard about it a week ago (I know I'm a day late and a dollar short) and I did. I read it in one night.

I cannot wait to get the others.

So what did anyone else think? Did you like them? Were they worth the price? What about the plots? Believable?

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm still working my way through Death in Winter. It's not as epic as I had hoped.

 

[VDCNI]

As a Crusher fan I really enjoyed Death In Winter though it had its problems. After that the books were a little too Borg heavy for my tastes though they were redeemed to an extent by the Destiny trilogy (which also features Riker & Troi on the Titan and Ezri Dax) - Resistance was probably the weakest of those books but it does give Crusher a big role in the conclusion so you'll probably enjoy that bit at least.

Overall the Titan books are stronger though the post Destiny TNG books starting with Losing The Peace look very promising.

 

[nx1701g]

I've read them all. Some are very hit and miss, but others have been very well done.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Death in Winter- quite good, nice easy opening, interesting ideas

Resistance- disappointing, and poor continuity, but reasonably solid writing and interesting characters, shame about the execution. Not keen on the plot.

Q and A- great.

Before Dishonour- worst Trek book of the 21st century (possibly). Massive wallbanger, unbelievable plot, no sense of what the story is about, assassination of the new characters from Resistance and Q and A.

Greater Than the Sum- great.

Destiny trilogy: Excellent.

Losing the Peace- haven't got this one yet, but excerpts I've read look promising.

 

[Frazzled]

Bluurrgghhhhh no. I love the original crew, I don't like having to get to know new people who I can't visualise. I struggled through 'Before Dishonour' motivated because of the Janeway thing and I kept tuning out during the scenes on the Enterprise.

I might attempt the Destiny books because everyone says they're so fantastic, but I really just don't know if I can be bothered. I'd have to really take the trouble to get to know them all. I wouldn't mind reading a totally-new-to-me novel where I didn't know anybody at all, eg when you walk into a bookshop and buy something unrelated to anything, it's the fact I've loved this crew and now just half of them are there with all these others.

Love love love love love the novels set during the series though

 

[LaBarre]

Yes, all of them. Have my quibbles about various ones, but on the whole, really enjoying the continuity coming with the relaunch novels.

 

[Shazam!]

Bluurrgghhhhh no. I love the original crew, I don't like having to get to know new people who I can't visualise.

Why can't you visualise them? Surely it's something you have to do whenever you read ANY work of fiction?

 

[SilentP]

Bluurrgghhhhh no. I love the original crew, I don't like having to get to know new people who I can't visualise.

Why can't you visualise them? Surely it's something you have to do whenever you read ANY work of fiction?

Perhaps it's the dissonance between having characters that ingrained on your psyche and memory like the original characters, and the new characters, who you only have a vague mental construct of that makes visualising it uncomfortable? I know that's how I occasionally felt reading some of the novels.

 

[Thor Damar]

To be honest I only got a read Death in Winter because their were Romulans in it, sadly one of those was Sela. I've never been a shipper and romantic subplots leave me cold (IMO it's ruined the Andorians for me, at least in Treklit) so the main part of the book was beyond me.
The Tomalak cameo was great and the Donatara/Tal'aura rivalry was enjoyable but sadly the whole book was not as good as it could have been.

 

[Frazzled]

Bluurrgghhhhh no. I love the original crew, I don't like having to get to know new people who I can't visualise.

Why can't you visualise them? Surely it's something you have to do whenever you read ANY work of fiction?

Perhaps it's the dissonance between having characters that ingrained on your psyche and memory like the original characters, and the new characters, who you only have a vague mental construct of that makes visualising it uncomfortable? I know that's how I occasionally felt reading some of the novels.

Yes that's it exactly. As I said, I don't have trouble with completely new sets of people in a novel, whereas the TNG crew are so familiar having been playing their parts in the corner of my living room for so many years now!

 

[The Grim Ghost]

There are some great ones and some truly awful ones.

If you're a Picard/Crusher shipper keep reading, I think you will be pleased.

 

[RandyS]

Yes, all of them. Have my quibbles about various ones, but on the whole, really enjoying the continuity coming with the relaunch novels.

Same here, but I still wish they release some new books set in the seven year period of the series. Ditto with DS9. Not to slam what the relaunches are doing (particularly DS9), but I wouldn't mind seeing some of the old stuff again.

 

[BillJ]

HI
So far I've read the first one...Dead of Winter...and I loved it. Unlike many on this board...Beverly Crusher was my favorite character on the show. And I have always been a Picard/Crusher shipper! So I just had to get my hands on this book as soon as I heard about it a week ago (I know I'm a day late and a dollar short) and I did. I read it in one night.

I cannot wait to get the others.

So what did anyone else think? Did you like them? Were they worth the price? What about the plots? Believable?

Read them all. Unfortunately Death in Winter is the best of the lot. And I don't even like Crusher.