A review by octavia_cade
Oblivion's Gate by David Mack

adventurous slow-paced

2.5

I think that sometimes you read a book, and you can appreciate the effort, the organisation, and the intent behind it, and still just not find it that interesting. I did not find this that interesting. It wasn't awful. It was better than the first book in the series. I just... I don't care about alternate universes, or alternate timelines, or convoluted plots that are more interested in moving parts than in characters. So many people died in this, in so many supposedly thrilling death scenes, but the overall emotional effect wasn't there for me. I was overdosed on drama, and by the end I did not care. My overwhelming feeling, on reading the final lines, was "This book is about 150 pages too long."

The trilogy's a giant reset button for the Star Trek universe. I get it, I do. But there are Trek books that I will read again, primarily for their character work. This book - this series - I won't be reading it again. Once is enough.