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A review by strikingthirteen
Shadows on the Sun by Michael Jan Friedman
4.0
I really enjoy this one. There are a bit of issues to be sure (I've got typos, a weird bit of where I think Spock has too many hands and a bit of perhaps a bit of wobbly ness on what exactly McCoy's job here is) but I really enjoy this book and do like rereading it. It's not very often that McCoy gets his own story outside of Kirk and Spock so this has a special fondness for me in that regard.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has just ended. The crew is off to be decommissioned but there's one final mission for them to do. Brought to them by virtue that Dr. McCoy is apparently a specialist of the planet and its people, if by specialist you mean he was a medical trainee stationed there during a massive war.
Don't get me wrong, I really did enjoy the middle section of the book which has us meet 26 year old Leonard McCoy and we get to see how he reacts and changes over the course of that mission but the selling point being made here is that one of the diplomats traveling with the Enterprise crew to this troubled world is his ex-wife.
Jocelyn Treadway nee Darnell is an interesting character. I like how there's lots to dislike about her (you are reading this with a built in sympathy for McCoy after all) but you can also see reasons why he still loves her. She's selfish, flighty, but also (at least according to McCoy and Clay Treadway) is a caring person who brings out the best in people. Honestly, her best moments were her long confessional to Kirk where you got a sense of her as a real person instead of this fate or idea that the guys had of her.
All in all though it's a great comfort read though. It gives our TOS crew one last hurrah and a look at McCoy that we don't often see, which I think is worth the price of admission alone.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has just ended. The crew is off to be decommissioned but there's one final mission for them to do. Brought to them by virtue that Dr. McCoy is apparently a specialist of the planet and its people, if by specialist you mean he was a medical trainee stationed there during a massive war.
Don't get me wrong, I really did enjoy the middle section of the book which has us meet 26 year old Leonard McCoy and we get to see how he reacts and changes over the course of that mission but the selling point being made here is that one of the diplomats traveling with the Enterprise crew to this troubled world is his ex-wife.
Jocelyn Treadway nee Darnell is an interesting character. I like how there's lots to dislike about her (you are reading this with a built in sympathy for McCoy after all) but you can also see reasons why he still loves her. She's selfish, flighty, but also (at least according to McCoy and Clay Treadway) is a caring person who brings out the best in people. Honestly, her best moments were her long confessional to Kirk where you got a sense of her as a real person instead of this fate or idea that the guys had of her.
All in all though it's a great comfort read though. It gives our TOS crew one last hurrah and a look at McCoy that we don't often see, which I think is worth the price of admission alone.