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madisonreadsbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
frakalot's review against another edition
3.0
Unlike book 2, book 3 doesn't start exactly where its predecessor left off. Instead we're seeing events from a new perspective and watching events unfold in a location that the series hadn't previously focused on. This new direction was a fun one and I personally think that it lifted up the series at a point when it could have started to drag.
That said, book 3 did actually drag for me, but not because the story had lost appeal. It started off really strong and finished ok but everything in the middle was the churn (to steal and break a quote from another scifi franchise).
When I began to write this review I had actually written up a list of bones I wanted to pick, but I've scrapped that list because I think that my mounting qualms arose from a single point. The love-is-in-the-air vibe was ridiculous! It's only barely exaggerating to say that every character had a scene of confused romance in this book. I think my frustration with this element had me issuing a harsher judgement of inconsistencies with the story overall.
A piece of personal indulgence on the author's behalf, Vornholt used Teska in this story, a character he had created a few years earlier in his TOS novel 'Mind Meld'. I'm ok with a bit of that and it did have me considering genealogy trees for a few moments as a bonus. Then to no noone's surprise a few chapters later he threw in a reference to his TNG duology 'Gemworld' as well. I haven't read either of those other referenced works yet.
I think the Genesis Wave concept was underused in the end but I enjoyed most of the main series and I'm looking forward to the supplementary 'Genesis Force'. There remain a lot of unanswered questions.
That said, book 3 did actually drag for me, but not because the story had lost appeal. It started off really strong and finished ok but everything in the middle was the churn (to steal and break a quote from another scifi franchise).
When I began to write this review I had actually written up a list of bones I wanted to pick, but I've scrapped that list because I think that my mounting qualms arose from a single point. The love-is-in-the-air vibe was ridiculous! It's only barely exaggerating to say that every character had a scene of confused romance in this book. I think my frustration with this element had me issuing a harsher judgement of inconsistencies with the story overall.
A piece of personal indulgence on the author's behalf, Vornholt used Teska in this story, a character he had created a few years earlier in his TOS novel 'Mind Meld'. I'm ok with a bit of that and it did have me considering genealogy trees for a few moments as a bonus. Then to no noone's surprise a few chapters later he threw in a reference to his TNG duology 'Gemworld' as well. I haven't read either of those other referenced works yet.
I think the Genesis Wave concept was underused in the end but I enjoyed most of the main series and I'm looking forward to the supplementary 'Genesis Force'. There remain a lot of unanswered questions.
acreech's review
2.0
Eh. Kinda continued some stuff from the previous two books, but completely ignored loose ends and referenced an event that I don’t recall at all from those books (and I read them this week). Poor characterization of the TNG crew and none of the interesting plot points were really explored.
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