Hopefully her Kindle is from after 2012, otherwise you'll have a brick come May 20, 2026 when Amazon kills all pre-2013 Kindles by bricking them to where you'll be able to just read what's already on the device, but then not be able to load or unload anything onto or off of the Kindle after that date.
Anyway, with The Wounded Sky, I've been finding that Diane Duane really does not have a good grasp on the characters. Even taking into account of when this book was released, prior to Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, I'm finding that the characters are off.
There's a scene fairly early on in the book in Chapter 1 where Starfleet announces which ship gets the honor of having the inversion drive, and Duane has Kirk go into his cabin and just freak out and go bonkers with excitement after hearing that the Enterprise has "won" the competition, and the way she has Kirk do it, I found was really jarring and was really out of character for Kirk. At one point it felt like she was trying to have Kirk do something like the Trump-dance ( 40 years before Trump made the dance popular, obviously) to show off his excitement in the privacy of his quarters. And the whole scene just doesn't work, since it Kirk doesn't act like Shatner or Smith might've portrayed Kirk getting excited. And throughout the rest of the book I find that Kirk is kind of stiff like he was in TMP, but at the same time he's not anywhere close to being the Kirk of TOS, TAS or TMP.
However I am also finding that Duane really could not decided where on the bridge Chekov was supposed to be. There are a couple of scenes where Sulu and Chekov are on the bridge and it feels like they are in their classic TOS positions at the helm/nav console, just chatting away like they sometimes did, but then there are a few other instances where Duane has another character address Chekov and she makes it sound like he is on the port side of the bridge at the weapons station like he was in TMP, and there are a few occasions where Duane had Sulu and Chekov talking at the helm/nav---but then all of sudden another character is talking to Chekov on the port side like he's at the weapons station in TMP. It is very jarring or else Chekov has a personal transporter that just beams him from the nav station to a weapons console on the port side (this is one of the things where the Enterprise seems to be that Phase II second five-year Enterprise that was established in Black Fire that seems to have a mix of TOS and TMP Enterprise features---but Sonni Cooper did a better job on that Enterprise than Duane has done) whenever someone wants to talk to him at the weapons console. And Duane does mention that Chekov is at the weapons console a few times, which for me makes me think of the weapons console in TMP, because, while Chekov did fire weapons a few times in TOS from the nav station, in TOS the station next to Sulu was always called Navigation or the Nav console, not weapons (plus in TOS Sulu even fired weapons from his station on a couple of occasions).
Also K'T'Lk, so far has not impressed me that much and her interactions with the crew, again, is not great. With Kirk, Duane has K'T'lk explain about the mating practices of her species and how the females eat the males, which I found rather odd, because, even though it was an alien mating ritual, it felt like Duane was trying to incorporate some Harlequin Romance/Porn into her book, just as she had K'T'Lk describe how her species does the deed, without making the chapter a human Harlequin Romance/Porn story and possible get rejected. Overall it was a very weird scene and I was wondering why it was in the book.
And then K'T'Lk seems to have a thing on for Scotty in the book, but I really find that Duane really didn't get any chemistry between them going between them either as a romance or just as colleagues. So I'm really finding that that is not working and I'm surprised that nothing was mentioned about Scotty's previous romance with Mira Romaine, even though at one point there is a passing mention of Kirk being in a woman's body.
I'm still reading the book, however so far its a "It's Green" book, there are somethings that are good, but others are not and its one of those books were I'm just not caring about it, but there is something that makes me want to finish it.
With Duane I have read Spock's World, Doctor's Orders, Dark Mirror & Intellivore in the past. When I read Spock's World in the 90's I remember finding it alright, but Duane's history building sections I was finding rather boring and really didn't enjoy. Intellivore I read years ago and it was a thumbs down book (and what was up with Data on the cover since I felt like that after reading the book!). Doctor's Orders I did enjoy and her cloud aliens were interesting. However, to date, my favorite Duane book is Dark Mirror, and I really wish that she had maybe done a sequel to it set in that Mirror Universe that she created with the TNG crew. So I would say that for authors from that era of Trek novels, and if I had to compare her to Diane Carey, I would pick Carey over Duane. Of course I haven't read Duane's Romulan books, however she's not my favorite 80's/90's Trek author.
