Reviews

Dead Endless by Dave Galanter

cythera15's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Listening to this audiobook really made my life infinitely better and I legitimately had to cry out loud because of how good & gay it was. When I was first reading this I thought 'OMG the author got this wrong about this character and that about the other character, and their voices are all wrong, etc." BUT THERE WAS A REASON FOR IT! Now I'm rewatching Discovery and it is so much better thanks to this book!!

ejpip25's review

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

THIS IS THE BEST BOOK IVE EVER READ

jbrooxd's review

4.0

I was happy to discover for myself that this was not a novelization of the episodes from ST Discovery thanks to

Spoiler

a parallel universe. Culber is from the TV show timeline while Stamets and the crew in the book are from a different universe.

There was a good amount of time spent on their relationship as well as some circular conversations between Culber and a tardigrade. The rest of the story focused on the issues on Discovery and how Starfleet will save the day. It felt like a typical Star Trek novel, and I enjoyed it. (Some language)

taaya's review against another edition

4.0

Somewhere around the middle I got lost a bit. When the beings manifested themselves. That was a bit too much to keep track of in, maybe just because I was listening to the audio book. I read a message on my phone and suddenly everything was different within seconds? That was one layer of twists and complications too much for my attention span.
But apart from that I loved the writing and the narration. Especially how Saru was written was just brilliant. Funny, charming, ...
Looking forward to the next Discovery novel. So far none of them disappointed.

rcollins1701's review

3.0

With the Star Trek: Discovery tie-ins, there is a concerted effort by the show runners and the authors to bring the novels into the official story of the show. This raises the stakes a little and creates a more seamless continuity between what we see on-screen and on the page (and avoids devolving into too much fan service). This is great for weirdos like me who like to watch shows as much as they like to read novels. Dead Endless is a straight-up classic sci-fi story, full-up with multiple dimensions and non-linear time, spores, spaceships, aliens and telepathy. Good stuff. The core of the novel is the love between Dr. Culber and Lt. Stamets, and Galanter doesn't take for granted that the reader will just accept these two men love each other—he builds there relationship from the ground up in a way that makes the conclusion heartbreaking and adds so much value to the plot on-screen. Good stuff!

sleepey's review

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

diane_denise's review

5.0

Beautiful. My eyes watered a bit.

tamikan's review

5.0

So far my favorite of the Discovery books. I felt like this author really captured the characters and it was nice getting a lot of scenes with the lesser seen crew members even if they aren't really our Discovery crew.

frakalot's review

5.0

This is a very beautiful story. The unfolding story is captivating and was well told. I have to admit to honestly not getting exactly what was going on until very near the end, but only in the sense that I had no idea what was our familiar reality. I'll say no more lest I spoil anything.

Excellent narration as always. I hope someone pays Petkoff to do all of the Trek novels so I can buy them all!

_james_'s review

4.0

I was looking forward to this book so much and it did not disappoint. It's been a while since I read a book in less than a day.

I felt at home right away with Paul and Hugh, their characterization familiar and well done. The emotions coming from the pages were deep and moving.

It read in most parts like a fanfic and mean that as the HIGHEST compliment.

I would have liked some more quiet time between them, unsupervised and intimate. I even felt like the overall story of the rescue mission, the new aliens and Captain Burnham took a bit too much time away from the main focus of Hugh and Paul near the end where Paul was suddenly missing from the story for at least two chapters.

This would have been a book where I'd liked some more chapters after the climax of the side story, but the call of other!Stamets to other!Culber was still well done. I wonder what that Culber's reaction would be once Paul comes out with the reason for the call at some point.

Definitely one of my favourites among the Discovery novels.