Read the NCIS tie-in Extremis and about to read Purgatory's Key (ST:Legacies series)
So What Are you Reading?: Generations
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Yeah, okay, I know, I just didn't qualify it.
Finished Forever Red. For a Black Widow novel, I'd say that while Nat did play a significant role, I wouldn't have classed her as the main character of the novel (probably one of the top three though).
Next up is book 11 and 12 of the Arisen series, but I've also just bought four of Mike Lunnon-Wood's novels as they've been released on Kindle. (I'd read two of them in paperback years ago, but one of them, Kings Shilling, was definitely worth a double-dip for my tastes)
Next up is book 11 and 12 of the Arisen series, but I've also just bought four of Mike Lunnon-Wood's novels as they've been released on Kindle. (I'd read two of them in paperback years ago, but one of them, Kings Shilling, was definitely worth a double-dip for my tastes)
I read Frank Peretti's, The Visitation and some of Hillary Clinton's, Living History. I also read a story from Stephen King's, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
Anybody read the Enterprise novel "The Good that Men do"? I just ordered it on Amazon. I have high hopes that it will be a good read.
I'm currently 17 chapters in and really enjoyed it so far. I originally feared, it would not be as good as the other ENT novels, mainly because I've heard some mixed opinions on the retcon elements and because I didn't like Last Full Measure, the previous ENT book which was written by the same authors. However it is IMO quite good, made me interested in reading about T'Pol, who I was not exactly a fan of. My only "complaint" is that it hasn't yet done anything that great for Travis Mayweather who I thought would be a fairly obvious character to feature more heavily and expand in a relaunch series. It worked with most Voyager characters in Kirsten's relaunch novels. Also something that I just realized, so far it focuses on the "big three", who are my least favorite characters in the series, but still it does that so well that I didn't really notice until now, and judging by your user name (except if it is a Halloween username
) you like at least one of these characters.If you like Enterprise, which I think you do, I'd recommend pretty much every ENT novel set during the series to you.They are all great (except Surak's Soul and Last Full Measure. Those two were ok.)
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Okay, I now finished TGTMD... No I don't like that abbreviation, I'll stick with The Good That Men Do, and it only got better. The Trip chapters got way more interesting, the Enterprise story arc was note quite as good but still enjoyable. I'll read ENT: Kobayashi Maru next. Furthermore I plan to finish the whole Romulan War arc within next week.
I loved TGTMD, but I thought there was a pretty drastic drop in quality with the next book, Kobayashi Maru. After the reaction they got on here, and that fact that I didn't really like KM that much I decided to skip the Romulan War books, so I can't comment on those.
Amen to that.
Okay, I finished Kobayashi Maru aaaand it's not very good. It gets better over time, the political stuff is mildly interesting, but the rest... The crew of the Kobayashi Maru is probably the most unlikable crew... ever. On T'Pol:
I basically liked all of the characters way less than before, Hoshi and Travis still didn't get any sort of spotlight, though there was a very good reason to feature Travis some more...
I'm just glad that this is over and will now move on to the Romulan War series *sigh*
I think I would have liked the book more if T'Pol didn't learn that Trip's still alive so soon. That is sort of The Good That Men Do's fault, but I just noticed it here.
I'm just glad that this is over and will now move on to the Romulan War series *sigh*
I am re-reading Rough Beasts of Empire and wanted to say how much more I am enjoying these books this time around now that I have read all the background stories. I 'know' people say you can start with Destiny and you can, it just worked out better for me to go all the way back to the ' A Time To...' books.
I've read a ton of Trek lately but I'll talk about those when I post in annual "What Trek did you read last year" thread. At least I remember there usually is one. Except for the books that have been published in the last month or yet to be published this year I'm all caught up so I'm reading non-Trek for awhile and here's what I've started with:
The Scar by China Mieville: Amazing. I loved Perdido Street Station and this was just as good. I'll be reading Iron Council later this year or early next year.
Willful Child by Steven Erikson: Man, I get why the person who recommended this did but it just didn't work for me. A parody of Trek that I just thought was repetitious. There were like 2 moments where I thought I wish there was way more of that. I liked Redshirts a LOT better.
Rolling Thunder by John Varley: Not his best stuff, but that's a very high bar, but a good enough plane/vacation book. Pretty much an homage to the Heinlein YA books.
Just started Odds On by Michael Crichton: One of his early 'med-school years' books originally published under the name John Lange. Most of these are pretty fun adventures and this is starting out pretty well.
The Scar by China Mieville: Amazing. I loved Perdido Street Station and this was just as good. I'll be reading Iron Council later this year or early next year.
Willful Child by Steven Erikson: Man, I get why the person who recommended this did but it just didn't work for me. A parody of Trek that I just thought was repetitious. There were like 2 moments where I thought I wish there was way more of that. I liked Redshirts a LOT better.
Rolling Thunder by John Varley: Not his best stuff, but that's a very high bar, but a good enough plane/vacation book. Pretty much an homage to the Heinlein YA books.
Just started Odds On by Michael Crichton: One of his early 'med-school years' books originally published under the name John Lange. Most of these are pretty fun adventures and this is starting out pretty well.
Finally getting into Purgatory's Key. 
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