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madisonreadsbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
steds's review against another edition
3.0
as audiobook. super great production, wonderful for driving. so much fun! old school radio drama for the star trek set.
frakalot's review
4.0
For those of us who were quietly mourning the lack of Worf in the Genesis Wave trilogy, Genesis Force immediately makes up for that by showing us exactly what Ambassador Worf was doing when the first wave hit.
I was surprised by this. In my characteristic haste, I jumped in without reading the blurb and had presumed that Genesis Force was going to be about the cleanup process following after the events of the Genesis Wave trilogy. I was also hoping that it would fill in much of the unanswered background details but instead we've got one more perspective of the same catastrophe.
I enjoyed the story but I might have liked it even more if the previous trilogy didn't come first.
I was surprised by this. In my characteristic haste, I jumped in without reading the blurb and had presumed that Genesis Force was going to be about the cleanup process following after the events of the Genesis Wave trilogy. I was also hoping that it would fill in much of the unanswered background details but instead we've got one more perspective of the same catastrophe.
I enjoyed the story but I might have liked it even more if the previous trilogy didn't come first.
leafy_kunoichi's review
2.0
The original Genesis arc should have ended in book 2. This installment was not necessary or particularly interesting.
judenoseinabook's review
4.0
Once I got into it it was a good read, from a slightly different angle. Concentrates more on the victims than the trek characters, but enough of Worf to still be a STNG story.
solaniisrex's review
3.0
Much like the Genesis Wave books, this one had an interesting premise. Sadly, the writing wasn't up to par. People acted out of character and the whole thing felt more like a list of events than it did a story.
bibliocat's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
This book was very....meh. I had read the previous Genesis Wave trilogy by John Vornholt. Although it's been awhile, I recalled liking those books well enough. This one has a plotline that is running concurrently to those, or takes place just after those.
First of all, I judge books by their covers. I just do, ok? This one departs from the glorious space artwork, and just has the Enterprise E on a checkerboard of alternating red and black blocks. It doesn't fit in well all the other covers.
At 405 pages, it was a slog. I wanted to read about adventures of my favorite characters, but the Enterprise E crew doesn't even get involved in the plot until about 3/4 of the way through, with the exception of Ambassador Worf, who is on the planet of Aluwna helping a contingent of Klingons deal with the aftermath of the Genesis Wave. Mainly the story focuses on the power plays among the ruling "high breed" class and and the main scientist, Marla Karuw.
We see social stratification early on, where we're introduced to a pair of adorable 12-13 year old street urchins, Farlo Fuzwik (I swear this would be the most perfect name for a future cat...) and his friend, Candra. They pick-pocket their way through the rich people at the palace, get caught, and low-and-behold, the boy is long-lost Maltese falcon of "high breed" people who is desperately needed for the royal bloodlines. There's a twist to that, but...uh...ok? So he's promptly married off to the Seeress, who is the female ruler, and Candra was promptly sold into a brothel. These things happened in the most G rated way possible, and were still just gross. I also waited most of the book for these characters to pay off in some way, thinking the author forgot about them. The boy's arc got paid off in the obvious way, and the girl only did one significant thing in the whole book, and that plot point could have easily been given to another character.
There was a bit of science versus politics in the story. At some points, I was getting the impression the scientists were supposed to be the bad guys. Maybe I missed it, but why exactly was Marla Karuw in jail for years before being needed to save the population from the Genesis Wave? I would have liked more detail on that.
Maybe my judgement about this book was colored by reading the ST: Picard novel Last, Best Hope right before this one, since they both deal with catastrophic environmental damage of a planet, and how the population is trying to survive. The Picard novel was very good, but two books in a row with the same theme was too much.
First of all, I judge books by their covers. I just do, ok? This one departs from the glorious space artwork, and just has the Enterprise E on a checkerboard of alternating red and black blocks. It doesn't fit in well all the other covers.
At 405 pages, it was a slog. I wanted to read about adventures of my favorite characters, but the Enterprise E crew doesn't even get involved in the plot until about 3/4 of the way through, with the exception of Ambassador Worf, who is on the planet of Aluwna helping a contingent of Klingons deal with the aftermath of the Genesis Wave. Mainly the story focuses on the power plays among the ruling "high breed" class and and the main scientist, Marla Karuw.
We see social stratification early on, where we're introduced to a pair of adorable 12-13 year old street urchins, Farlo Fuzwik (I swear this would be the most perfect name for a future cat...) and his friend, Candra. They pick-pocket their way through the rich people at the palace, get caught, and low-and-behold, the boy is long-lost Maltese falcon of "high breed" people who is desperately needed for the royal bloodlines. There's a twist to that, but...uh...ok? So he's promptly married off to the Seeress, who is the female ruler, and Candra was promptly sold into a brothel. These things happened in the most G rated way possible, and were still just gross. I also waited most of the book for these characters to pay off in some way, thinking the author forgot about them. The boy's arc got paid off in the obvious way, and the girl only did one significant thing in the whole book, and that plot point could have easily been given to another character.
There was a bit of science versus politics in the story. At some points, I was getting the impression the scientists were supposed to be the bad guys. Maybe I missed it, but why exactly was Marla Karuw in jail for years before being needed to save the population from the Genesis Wave? I would have liked more detail on that.
Maybe my judgement about this book was colored by reading the ST: Picard novel Last, Best Hope right before this one, since they both deal with catastrophic environmental damage of a planet, and how the population is trying to survive. The Picard novel was very good, but two books in a row with the same theme was too much.
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