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Unreality SF reviews many TV tie-ins, including quite a few Trek books.
*Hands Keith a big baseball bat to hit himself with.* 
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Steve Roby regularly reviews ST books on his Starfleet Library: Star Trek Books blog.
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Steve Roby regularly reviews ST books on his Starfleet Library: Star Trek Books blog.
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LibraryThing, like Amazon, has reviews for tons of different books, but I find their quality a little bit higher. Certain books are liable to have more reviews than others, usually older classic novels, as well as recent releases.
I'm putting bricks in the pinata at your next birthday.
Those sites scare me because they seem really hard to navigate and find what you are looking for.
I tried and couldn't find any reviews...
^^^ Not sure if this really helps much:
Dreamwatch's Star Trek category There aren't only book reviews, but from here it should be easy enough to find them.
Trek Nation's book reviews (Not sure if this is up to date, have there been reviews after ASD?
While TrekWeb has a list of book reviews, they obviously haven't updated it in years.
I guess the only way to make the search for trek book reviews simpler on Sci-Fi Chicks site would be searching for Star Trek, but you'll get a lot of hits dealing with the movie.
Dreamwatch's Star Trek category There aren't only book reviews, but from here it should be easy enough to find them.
Trek Nation's book reviews (Not sure if this is up to date, have there been reviews after ASD?
While TrekWeb has a list of book reviews, they obviously haven't updated it in years.
I guess the only way to make the search for trek book reviews simpler on Sci-Fi Chicks site would be searching for Star Trek, but you'll get a lot of hits dealing with the movie.
The fun thing about posting the occasional review online is the thoughtful insights people post in response. Today, for example, someone named Anonymous mused thus on my review of Full Circle, quoting a paragraph with which he or she took issue:
Anonymous said:
For what it's worth, Steve, I agree with your assessment of VOYAGER as a series. It could have been glorious.
The prose versions are, to my mind, much more satisfying.
The prose versions are, to my mind, much more satisfying.
Yep. I didn't care much for Voyager as a TV series, but I never stopped reading the novels, because they were often more thoughtful and more intelligently written.
See, this is where I fall down on the novels, I think. I'm only inspired to read tie-in novels when I didn't "get enough" of the original. I got more than I cared to see of Voyager, which was barely a season.
In my case, I thought the series premise and the characters had promise that the TV series didn't fully make good on. The books couldn't undo what the TV series did, but they could easily be smarter and more believable. (Plus, of course, I'm a Trek books completist.)
I liked the first three seasons of Voyager.
But I also like the books which covered that period. While then series did have some mediocre or downright bad episodes even during those favorite seasons of mine (Threshold, Emanations, Blood Fever), almost all of the books are of high quality with good and entertaining stories. Some contradictions here and there but nothing serious.
Not to mention marstepieces like "The Black Shore" by Greg Cox, "Marooned" by Christie Golden and "Her Klingon Soul" by Michael Jan Friedman. I would have love to see them as two-parts TV episodes.
My season 1-3 Voyager books reviews: http://lynx677.110mb.com/bookreviews.html
^ Perhaps unsurprisingly, given our prior exchanges, I really disagree. I thought Her Klingon Soul was just about the most stale, stereotypical, predictable Trek book I've ever read, and gave me no new insights into any character. I usually make every effort to suspend disbelief and ride along with the story, not try to overanalyze it (at least until after I'm done ), but with that one it was so obvious that I couldn't stop myself from predicting each plot twist before it happened.
Haven't read Black Shore or Marooned, though.
), but with that one it was so obvious that I couldn't stop myself from predicting each plot twist before it happened. Haven't read Black Shore or Marooned, though.
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