SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoilers!)

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

I think i remember reading somewhere, probably here, that #3 & #4 have been contracted, but there is no set release date yet that I've heard of..

All I've heard is sometime in 2015 for books 3 and 4.

--Sran

 

[Csalem]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

I voted Average. First book was good but I struggled with this one. In book one we got the Changed fighting Starfleet crew, and for most of this one we got the same thing. After a while I felt there was only so many accounts of the two sides fighting I could read.

 

[Ronald Held]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

I found it "unnecessary" slow and a somewhat unsatisfying ending.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

I found it "unnecessary" slow and a somewhat unsatisfying ending.

I didn't find it slow, but there were a number of redundant passages that didn't need to be there.

--Sran

 

[trash80]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

Quite good but I felt the overall story would have been better off as 1 book instead of 2

 

[jla1987]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

I voted Average. First book was good but I struggled with this one. In book one we got the Changed fighting Starfleet crew, and for most of this one we got the same thing. After a while I felt there was only so many accounts of the two sides fighting I could read.

I agree completely. The first book was so much better and felt very fast paced. Second was so bogged down, sad to say.

 

[Quimby]

Re: SKRS #2: Point of Divergence by Ward&Dilmore Review Thread (Spoile

I really wish I liked these two books more than I did. Mostly I felt the Tomol were not interesting enough to carry the story for two books. One would have been enough.

Also I had a hard time keeping track of the characters, mainly because most of them sound the same. Either they were a quipy and jokey sitcom star who always has the perfect remark or a Spock clone. To be honest this is an issue with several Trek books not just these. No one sounds natural anymore and everyone has to be a comedian.

I plan to keep reading because I enjoy what this series wants to do (I want optimistic old school Trek) but I really want it to be better. Also I think a Who's Who of each crew in the next book might be helpful.

 

[Markonian]

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To be honest, I'd be unable to tell Sagittarius's XO and Christine Vale apart, in terms of dialog.

 

[ConRefit79]

Enjoyed this one. But may have been better for the ending to be more bitter sweet. Make it where they never find a way to free the Endless. And the whole time I was thinking get Sagittarius as far from the Changed as possible.

 

[Bibliomike]

It was an extremely well written book, but I felt a little disappointed that this all-new series ended up having such heavy ties to Vanguard at the end, which I hadn't read.

 

[JD]

Well, it is a pretty direct spin-off of Vanguard, so it makes sense there would be a lot of callbacks to it.

 

[Bibliomike]

Well, it is a pretty direct spin-off of Vanguard, so it makes sense there would be a lot of callbacks to it.

I just didn't know that going in. The marketing led me to believe it was a brand-new jumping-on point -- which it is, but I'd been away from Trek books for a while (with the odd exception here and there), so I was just surprised.