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A review by frakalot
Articles of the Federation by Keith R.A. DeCandido
5.0
Reread 2021 on my Post Nemesis read through in preparation for the upcoming Coda series... and looking back at my earlier review (below), I've decided that I was a jerk 3 years ago. It pretty much says that I love the book and that I could only fault it for not having created a character that I enjoyed in another book and yet I still docked a star off my rating...! Obviously I'm going to bump this up right now.
This is a superior novel. KRAD has achieved so much with this single book. The story intricately links a vast amount of threads from many sources and every character is well constructed, interesting and genuine (even those who are only shortly glimpsed).
This time through I've realised that I especially love the short peeks into just how politics touches the lives of ordinary folks. A young lady studying at home. A couple of roommates flicking channels. A bar tender and a patron discussing the game on telly. It's all so wonderfully ordinary and very relatable.
Articles of the Federation is a thoughtfully written and dramatic story with impactful characters. The style is atypical for star trek literature, but as I mentioned earlier (below) I think more like this would be fantastic. If you haven't yet, get this book and read it.
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2018 review:
I could definitely read more of this style of Star Trek book for sure. I loved the pace which moved quickly throughout the story and the massive scope was fantastic. The ending definitely felt more like a "To Be Continued" than a "The End" to me.
I thought Bacco was a consistently fine character and my personal favorite new character was Bacco's personal assistant, a Vulcan named Sivak, who was a class act!
The only thing that let me down, so to speak, was that Agent Wexler, who we met briefly in 'Mere Mortals,' was not introduced in this story.
This is a superior novel. KRAD has achieved so much with this single book. The story intricately links a vast amount of threads from many sources and every character is well constructed, interesting and genuine (even those who are only shortly glimpsed).
This time through I've realised that I especially love the short peeks into just how politics touches the lives of ordinary folks. A young lady studying at home. A couple of roommates flicking channels. A bar tender and a patron discussing the game on telly. It's all so wonderfully ordinary and very relatable.
Articles of the Federation is a thoughtfully written and dramatic story with impactful characters. The style is atypical for star trek literature, but as I mentioned earlier (below) I think more like this would be fantastic. If you haven't yet, get this book and read it.
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2018 review:
I could definitely read more of this style of Star Trek book for sure. I loved the pace which moved quickly throughout the story and the massive scope was fantastic. The ending definitely felt more like a "To Be Continued" than a "The End" to me.
I thought Bacco was a consistently fine character and my personal favorite new character was Bacco's personal assistant, a Vulcan named Sivak, who was a class act!
The only thing that let me down, so to speak, was that Agent Wexler, who we met briefly in 'Mere Mortals,' was not introduced in this story.