Finally conquered Titan: Fallen Gods. It really seems Martin did not like White-Blue. This is a really terrible book. There's an early focus on another culture that could have been interesting if it had any context or some type of narration linking the behaviors. And then it disappears for what kind of feels like a re-do of Synthesis. The Andorian plot is just sort of there without any really purpose. (Aside from not making sense in general, the idea that SF commands Andorians leave sensitive areas doesn't jibe with stuff from the TNG books and the two Typhon Pact/DS9 books that preceded Fallen God's publication.) It took me 16 days to struggle through it, too.
I'm taking a brief rest from Trek lit to read some Bernice Summerfield novels. In particular, they're the novels that tie heavily into Big Finish's second season of Benny audios. So, currently just past the first story in the Dead Men Diaries collection. Pretty good so far.
I also knocked out the All You Need Is Kill graphic novel adaptation they just put out. It's not great, feels like there's some information missing in adaptation/translation. The art was odd, too. A lot of jagged edges on the lines of characters faces, like it was colored in photoshop and they didn't smooth out the the lines. There's a throwaway reference to Tom Cruise in it, an injoke because the book inspired the forthcoming Edge of Tomorrow. Also, there's a weird joke about the Bechdel test. Two women are talking to each other and get interrupted by a man and one of the women makes a flip comment about checking their Bechdel readings. It was kind of like the adaptor didn't really get the point of the Bechdel test, as it's the only time two women talk the whole 100 pages.
But... but... if you're on it, how can it be empty???
